Bear Lake

Our recent outing to Bear Lake. 

We found a nice shallow spot for the kids to play in and spent the entire day.

Claire is the rock collector. 

She also liked to stay close to shore.

Emma catching some rays.

They loved playing in the sand.

 Zoe loved getting out in the water.

 The girls thought Charlie needed a life jacket too.

Isabelle spent most of the day floating in the lake with her friends and tried to stay away from the camera.

Was that a tooth or a seed?

Today while Claire was eating a slice of watermelon she said in a shocked voice, 

"My tooth is gone!"

Whether she swallowed it or not, she has lost her first tooth and is super excited about it.

Luckily the tooth fairy will come even without a tooth to collect.

Angel Moroni Placed on the Brigham City Temple

Today was an awesome day! 

The angel Moroni statue was scheduled to be placed on the temple at noon today.

Around 11:30 the kids and I walked in the rain down to the temple site to watch.

There were thousands of people gathered despite the weather.

As noon approached the rain stopped and the statue was attached to the crane, but it couldn't be lifted because we started getting heavy wind. 

The word was passed around that the wind needed to die down before they could proceed and a prayer was given to bring good weather so they could continue. It wasn't long before the many prayers of those gathered were answered. 

You can see the sky clearing in the photos.

Waiting for the weather to clear.

When Emma wasn't fussing she rode the scooter through the crowd and made me worry that she was going to crash into someone.

About 1:30 the wind stopped and they immediately started hoisting the statue. 

They finished securing the statue about 3:00. By then you'd never have known how the weather had started out 3 hours earlier.

Below is the view of the temple from the corner of my block. It's only 3 blocks away!

 Every time I pull out of my driveway I get a great view of the temple. 

Having a temple here is one of the greatest blessings we could receive.

Dance Photos

Dance photos are in!  Have fun viewing! 

 Ballet. Where Do All the Butterflies Go.

 

 Tumbling. Here on Who for a Dr. Seuss theme dance. 

Ballet. Hedwig's Theme (Harry Potter)

Apparently mom was distracted and didn't realize a hair touch up was in order before this photo was taken. 

Claire also was in clogging. She danced to I Love Rock n Roll. I do not have the photo yet, but will add it when I get it.

Tumbling. Zoe was Thing 8 for her Dr. Seuss routine.

Clogging. Cowboy Sweetheart.

Ballet. Where the Wild Things Are.

Jazz. Weird Science.

Yep. Zoe was ambitious this year and did four styles of dance. 

We still don't know what her favorite is yet.

Clogging. Sold aka Grundy County Auction.

Isabelle stuck with her favorite this year and just did clogging.

Ballroom. Footloose.

This is my new favorite photo of Zach.

Clogging. Soul Man.

An explanation on Zach on Isabelle's clogging teams. Each year they compete two (or three) routines. They compete the routine they learned the previous year plus a new routine they learn the current year. They were each in several other dances this year, but we only take photos of the new routine each year. Zach also dances on a couples team, but I am not posting those photos to protect the privacy of his dance partners.

You may have noticed we are missing some photos of Emma. She took ballet and clogging, but she choose not to participate in picture day this year. Or recital for that matter. Actually at picture day she did the class photo (just for ballet) but wouldn't take an individual photo. Our photographer made her ballet photo from the class picture. At both events she put on her first costume and was super excited and then wouldn't cooperate when the time came.  I guess we have some cute dress up clothes now...