My Student Art Show

For the last three years I have loved teaching art! This year we focused on learning about different influential artists and art styles and doing pieces inspired by them. After many extra hours of preparation, we held our annual art show at the local library. Here are some of my favorite pieces that we did this year.






I wanted to teach pointillism to my students this year. (Pictures made from tiny dots of color placed close together.) This mural (all done with dots of paint on the end of pencil erasers) was a team effort and a labor of love. It took well over 60 man hours to complete. I just love the way it turned out looking like a beautiful patchwork quilt. An experience the students will not soon forget!

Race for the Cure

May 12th Steve and I rode trax downtown and joined thousands of others in SLC, for "The Race for the Cure." A 5k that raises money for breast cancer research and awareness. It had been years since I'd run this race and it is definitely more of an event for a cause than an athletic competition, but fun to be involved. We beat our Stake 5k time by over a minute!

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Relief Society 5K

This Saturday I ran in our Relief Society 5k. Dad and Janey came to cheer me on and hand me water at the finish line. I improved my time from last week by over a minute, but I have much more fun running with Steve than by myself. Too bad it was girls only!

The Avengers

Whitney and Steve were invited by some friends to go to the 12:01 first showing of the new Avengers movie. Lucky for them, mom didn't realize it would be a school night when she said yes. Whitney created a "Wasp" costume (an Avenger from the original comic series) with moving wings and Steve hand painted his "Tony Stark Arc Reactor" for the premiere party. Whitney showed off her Avenger's knowledge by winning the Avenger's Trivia contest before the movie. Dad and Mom caught up on the movie the next night and did our part to help it break all the records for a movie opening. Very Entertaining!

The Pink Pathers

Janey has wanted to play softball again, ever since she played in New Zealand. She started playing softball with the Pink Panthers this spring. They play youth pitch and Janey did a great job pitching last game. Go Janey!

Red Dragons

Ellie was dying to try soccer, so we signed her up for the spring season. Her team, the Red Dragons is undefeated so far and Ellie is having so much fun!

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First 5K

Steve and I ran in our Stake's 5K April 28th. We have been training since February at the indoor track at the Olympic Skating Oval. This was our first 5K of the season and Steve's first race ever! We are having so much fun being running partners and crossed the finish line together.

The Tempest

Daniel stole the first scene in his homeschool production of William Shakespeare's "The Tempest". He played Boatswain, and did a great job ordering everyone around during the storm. We spent hours and hours memorizing his lines, and he did an amazing job! They did 4 full length shows over 3 days. Daniel can't wait to participate again next year!

Mom was in charge of all the concessions for the plays. They will use the funds for their class trip to the Shakespeare Festival this summer!

Choir Tour by Whitney

My school has four choirs and once every other year the Acapella choir goes on tour. This year we went to Moab, Utah. We toured and sang at Snow collage, the eastern campus of USU and Delicate Arch (the rock formation on the Utah license plate). It was fun to show off the musical talent we've been working on all year as a class.

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Scout Trebuchet!

Daniel and Steve (dad) spent Friday night under the stars out as Five Mile Pass. The place got its name for being 5 miles west of Lehi and a stop on the famed Pony Express Trail! They enjoyed a simple dinner, a warm campfire and a beautiful view of the stars. The next day they built Trebuchets and competed in a competition with other scout troops. All in all a good time was had by all! Love Scouting!

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The Little Mermaid

Steve and I took the girls to see the Ballet "The Little Mermaid" at the Capital Theater. Ellie decided to journal about it. These are her words (and spelling.) :)

"One day my mom and dad took me and Janey to see the little mermaid. So we got dressed and went. We drove and drove and we finally got ther.

We watit and watit then it startid. The begining was spetakoler (spectacular)!"

I can't wait until she writes and illustrates the rest of the outing!