John and Caroline: November 2009

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Sonatina Festival

Abbey and Gracie played in the Sonatina Festival. They have been working on their sonatinas for about six weeks. Both of them made the finals. The judges pick the top two in thier division to play in a finals recital later in the day. They got to play on the big auditorium stage at CSI on a grand piano. They both did great and ended up each placing runner-up.

Gracie playing

Abbey

Finalist from level one to fifteen

Abber and Gracie...proud piansts

the CREW!!!

"What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas!"

Ok...you're right...we are not that scandelous....but we still had a GREAT TIME!!!

Most of the days, I was on my own. At night we went to dinners and shows and had a great time.

We stayed in the Belligio. This is in the Fall Garden with the talking trees.

Outside the Belligio, waiting for the water show.

Even though it is crazy to leave and organize kids and carpools, I enjoyed the break with my wonderful husband and best friend. Thanks Norma and Lyndsy for all your help.:)

So You Think You Can Dance!!!

Abbey. Gracie, and I got to go to the So You Think You Can Dance Tour. We were so excited!!! We went with Megan and Livvie and met my aunt Melodee and cousins Ashlee and Caitlin for dinner before the show.

We also saw friends at the show. This is Sage Eckert who dances with Abbey. They were texting (on thier mom's phones) each other non-stop. We also randomly sat across the isle from our friends the Driscoll's.

The excited threesome with SYTYCD stuff

The Stage!!!

In our seats

Opening Number...off to a fantastic start!

Janine (the winner) and Philip

Thanks for a wonderful time girls!!!

Sunday, November 1, 2009

Happy Halloween!!!

We had a few days of Halloween fun. Carter had his first Halloween party at preschool. He was Captain Jack Sparrow the pirate. He was worried about wearing his hat with the dreadlocks. He thought people might laugh at him. He wanted me to draw I mustashe and beard on him just like the picture. When I picked him up and he had a great time. One of the first things he said was, "mom, they didn't even laugh at me".

Argh!!! I'm Carter the pirate!

We had a cousin Halloween party at Grandma Andersen's. The cousin LOVE getting together under ANY circumstances. We are glad Grandma makes opportunities for us to be together. We ate, played games, and went trunk-or-treating.

Snow Princess (Lydia) and Snow White (Hilary)

They both loved they had dark wigs on.

17 of 22 grandchildren (and Aunt Joelle) ready to get more candy!

The pirate likes his picture taken...too cute!

One of our mummies!

On Halloween, the kids got invited to a party at the Bates house. The had so much fun. They had super fun halloween treats.The best part was the Spooky Room! We then went to our ward's dinner and party. We went through a spook alley there. This one was not so fun....the scarey boys were more than my monsters could bare. The weather was perfect.