Breanna and Josh Wow Audiences

Breanna has enjoyed playing her viola in the West Jordan Symphony. The following video comes from their Memorial Day Concert. Their attire was very casual compared with their usual concert black. They played at a funeral home. The intent was to play outside so that those coming to the cemetery would hear the music. The weather didn't cooperate though, so they had to play inside.



The next video is from one of her final concerts at Sunset Ridge. Joshua is also featured playing the cello in this video. Josh finished his third year playing the cello and has gotten quite good at it! The song they are playing is. . .well, see if you know what it is! The kids love this one at the region dances.

Guitar Hero

My brother Joe gets our vote for Guitar Hero. Not the video game, but in real life! Michael drew a picture of him playing his electric guitar.

Josh has also picked up the guitar and is having a great time learning the instrument. Recently, Josh and I went to a guitar store and played some expensive guitars. I think the most expensive one was $3100.00 or $3200.00. Then, Josh found a $99.00 guitar and played it. He liked the $99.00 one better. Go figure! I like that he doesn't like the expensive ones. I actually liked the $99.00 one too!

Greatest Snow On Earth!

We woke up this morning...something we've been blessed to do every morning so far...and Mother Nature had dumped yet another blanket of snow upon us! Natalie, Josh and Jacob went out to shovel the snow. Here are some pictures of how it looked!

This first one is out our front window.

Here are Natalie, Josh, and Jacob shovelling the driveway.

This last shot is to give some perspective of how deep this little 'skiff' is.

We're looking forward to drinking plenty of lemonade this summer!

Winter Camping!

Over the weekend, Josh's scout camp went Winter camping in the Uinta Mountains near Soapstone Basin.

This is a picture from the parking lot of the North Fork Campground. We caved off to the right of the parking lot. Most of us caved into the already existing snow bank, but it was still work!

Here, Josh (to the right) and his friend are standing on top of their cave. This is the morning after the campout. They were trying to destroy their cave. We don't like to leave them so others coming after don't get hurt falling into open

caves.

During the night, the temperature got to -8.8 degrees farenheight (yes, that is a negative number!) We decided that after zero degrees, that it all feels the same. In my cave (the last picture is me (throwing the snow) and another leader digging out our caves) the lowest temperature that I saw on my watch thermometer was positive 14 degrees. MUCH warmer than it was outside! We had a good time and earned some important bragging rights on this trip!