Red belt

Look who made red belt

Family Photo Recreations

For christmas this year we decided to recreate old family photos and put them together in a frame for my parents.  And since you all have asked, here are the photos.

We all got a good laugh.

First day of school

This week Xander started 5th grade. He's getting so big. 

Day's of '47 Float Preview Party

Anyone living in the Salt Lake Area be sure to head out TODAY and visit the South Towne Expo center for the Float Preview Party!  All the floats that are going to be in the Days of '47 parade are there.  It is FREE, indoors, air-conditioned, and they have FREE balloon artists, face painters, and more.  Be sure you vote for your favorite float (as long as it is float #12, aka the one with the bubbles).  It will be going on all day today until 9:00.

You can read about it from today's news (click here).  My float is mentioned (we are the ones with bubbles that drew kids away from the other floats).

Hope to see you there!

Heidi

Blue Belts

This week was karate graduation.  We all tested for our Blue belts.

Here is Xander receiving his Blue Belt:

Here we are showing off our moves.

Here I am getting my blue belt.

 And here we are all together in our blue belts.

Days of 47 Parade Float

Most of you have heard (and are probably sick of hearing), how I have been given the best (at least most unique) stake calling ever.  I have been called as the "2015 24th of July Parade Float Chairman" for our stake.  What does that mean?  It means I have $3500 and 1 year to create a parade float for the state's largest parade.  I have been working on this since April of 2014 when I was called, and we are in crunch mode.  We are trying to have the float done by the 4th of July to pilot in a test run at the 4th of July Parade.

Theme:
The theme for the Days of '47 Parade is "Pioneers Forging a New Frontier".  We had to incorporate at least one of the words into our float, and it couldn't be "A" or "New" or have anything to do with Star Trek.  Here was our proposed float design:

We are almost there.  Here is what we have done so far:

Float Base:

Doctor:

Fireman:

Superhero:

Architect:

Sleeper/Dreamer

Pilot:

President:

Musician:

And all the lettering (180+ letters that we had to glitter by hand, but boy do they shine!!!).

Hopefully we can meet our July 4th deadline.  Then I can relax for a few weeks until our BIG EVENT (which is actually 5 days long, by the time we do the day we take it to the expo center and set it up, then the two day preview party, then the night before events, and the day of events).  I am pretty much not going to sleep (or work, or do schooling, or karate or cub scouts that week).

But we are about half way there!  Hooray!!!

Natural History Museum of Utah

This weekend we went to the Natural History Museum of Utah.  It was raining but we had fun.

It rained, and Jared and Xander got pooped on by a giant mammal...  Fun times.

Super Bowl/hyrule castle

This is what Xander wanted to do during the super bowl. Make a scale model of hyrule (he honestly thought of this on his own). Challenge accepted.