Dalton is 8!

Dalton turned 8 on May 4th and it was great. He requested a friend birthday party and we invited everyone from his second grade class and the neighborhood best friends....I don't think he will ever consider just a boy party. We went to a local neighborhood park and set up crochet, tether ball, freebies, and then had the whole playground to use for fun. The day of the party came and the temperature dropped about twenty degrees and the minutes before the party started it dropped probably ten more. Everyone came and had a lot of fun and with forty minutes left of the party the rain started. We had birthday cake and drinks and then the party moved under the table for presents and there wasn't a single complaint. With five minutes until the party was officially over the rain REALLY came and we all ran to our two cars and crammed in until the parents came to pick up...again no complaints. We really did have a lot of fun and the kids were awesome.

On June 6th is the even bigger and MUCH better event, Dalton's baptism. At 11am Stevey will be honored to baptize our future Priesthood holder and confirm him a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints...HOORAY! Later, on that same day we will be saying good-bye to Shaylee and Braden who will be heading down to Moab with their dad who is unwound, rooted and ready to go. We will miss them greatly, but I am so excited for them to be reunited as a family again and start their new adventures together and partake of the happiness that is awaiting them.

50's Day

The elementry school the kids attend had its 50 year anniversary and in celebration they had a 50's day and all of the children were encouraged to dress up and PARTY. The classes all learned famous 50's songs and sang them for the parents and they had a HUGE party that evening at the school with rootbeer floats, all kids of 50's game and we even opened a time capsule. I made Zoie a poodle skirt the night before and it turned out great...not perfect but great.

Ballet

Zoie LOVES ballet and this past weekend she had her first ballet performance. The performance was called "Corduroy" based on the Corduroy children's book. Through Zoie's hard work and ability she earned the lead roll in the ballet and got to dance as Corduroy. She had her first dancing part as a "shopper" with all of the other girls in her class and Zoie was the shopper who liked to take her time (major type-casting here if there every was one) and the other girls had their parts too. Once this dance ended Zoie had to costume change back stage putting on her Corduroy coveralls with the infamous missing button. When it was time for her Corduroy solo part the stage lights came on in a soft orange color that silhouetted Zoie who was on top two big boxes (as if store shelves) and then the spot light came on for us to see Zoie or should we say Corduroy with her HUGE beautiful smile on and then started dancing her solo part. I couldn't help but cry....she is just growing up so fast and it just seemed like yesterday that she was three years old taking lessons from one of our friends who taught from the living room of her home.

Zoie did great and the whole thing was a lot of fun. Her teacher Kristen Clayton is a wonderful teacher who happens to be a REAL ballerina and who put together a beautiful show for all of us.