March 2011

This month we had the privlege of being invited to the Young Women's New Beginnings. As Taylor is turning 12 this year she was spotlighted and introduced to the group as well as 5 other girls. Their theme was "Princesses". I can't believe that she is growing up so quickly, where have the last 12 years of my life gone? For New Beginnings the girls spotlighted the wonderful work of Miranda Layton. She is a seamstress in our ward and I have the priviledge of visiting teaching her! She created a Young Women's fashion line with formal dresses in the colors of the values. Each of the Young Women wore one of her dresses as they described what each Value represented. It was a beautiful evening. March seemed like an insanely busy month! It was Leprechan time and Davin's class made Leprechan traps at school. It is a tradition in the first grade. They make these traps with the hopes of catching a Leprechan and getting it to tell them where his pot of Gold is. If the trap is worthy of the Leprachan's notice the Leprechan will leave a suprise behind to reward the child's efforts...what an interesting tradition, but one that Davin got rather creative with this year!March is our Gymnastics wrap up month, which usually means insane extra hours at the gym and not much else in our household but gymnastics! Needless to say it drives Nathan insane!!! This year I had the opportunity to take over Juliann's Preschool class as she got a full time day job. Let me tell you, these girl's were the cutest bundles of energy! I took this picture after we practiced log rolls on the mats. (which was loaded with static electricity) Where would I rather be than sharing a laugh with these little angels?!?
Here is a picture of Davin stretching in prep for his finale number.
This is Brennan preping for his walk across the balance beam!

Here Taylor is the one in the handstand closest to the left at the end of her finale number!
This is one of our finale night pictures. We had 3 nights of Finale's in order to spotlight every class. This night was a lot of our older gymnasts. Coaches Todd Griffiths, Juliann Sommerfeldt, Myself, Kris Olsen, Judy, and Jenni MacDonnell are all pictured here. Taylor is in this one as well, next to Jenni MacDonnell. She has a black leo with colored stars and such on it.

And last but not least, this month is also the Rotary Music Festival, which means extra choir practices and running to see preformances 2 days in a row. One day the school classes preform, the next the choir groups preform. They do an amazing job under the direction of Linda Burwell(with Mrs. Williams on the piano and Mrs. Drew managing all the behind the scene issues). I don't know how she gets them to preform as they do, but her choirs are amazing!
Here is Annie Soper, Taylor and Haylie Holland all sporting their wonderful choir attire!