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Catching Up

Between school, work, and ecclesiastical duties, I haven’t had much time to post. It’s time to catch up with the following:
Diana’s Kindergarten Spring Program
Anne’s Spring Band Concert
Spring Recital

2010 Spring Recital

The girls did a good job on their Spring Recital this year. Our only wish is that they would memorize their pieces.
Caroline played Sky Blue and New Orleans Celebration by Faber

Caroline
Emily played the first movement (allegro) of Concerto No. 3 in F major (Autumn) from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and Cherished Moments by Jon Schmidt

Emily
Anne [...]

Spring time in Utah

All I can say is, I’m glad I haven’t put out my tomato plants yet.

Diana’s Kindergarten Mother’s Day Program

For mother’s day this year all the kindergarten classes got together to do a program for their mothers. We were off track at the time so I had to drive Diana to school instead of sending her on the bus. Diana has been excited the past month or so because they have been [...]

2010 Spring Kindergarten Program

Diana’s Kindergarten class put on a Spring Program. Nancy went to this and was the videographer so she’ll have to comment on it.

UPDATE: 07/03/2010 – Turns out is was a Mother’s Day Program and Nancy already wrote about it here:

Anne’s Spring Band Concert 2010

Anne has been bugging me to put up the video of her Spring Band Concert. She has really enjoyed playing percussion this year and is one of only 2 girls in 7th grade percussion. She is looking forward to Symphonic Band next year and marching band when she gets into High School.

Part 1
They [...]

Chinese Immersion Update

I have decided not to put Diana in the Chinese immersion program at school because, of course, they have it on the worst track in year round school. I went to the informational meeting at the end of March looking forward to hearing how great the program was. It did indeed sound very [...]

More Catching Up – November and December

In November, Buddy lost his tooth and in December we had a visit to see the Christmas lights, Emily’s birthday, and Christmas:
He’s At That Age
Thanksgiving 2009
Christmas Lights
Emily’s Birthday
Christmas 2009

The Story of Rex

Nancy and I held firm on our “no pets” policy for 15 years. What made us decide to break it? I’m not sure but for some reason I felt the kids should have a pet and I wanted to get a dog. Nancy was definitely not on board with my idea of [...]

Still Catching Up…

I’m still catching up on last year’s posts and we’re still in October. For October we have:
October Conference
Nancy’s Birthday
Halloween