The Italy trip!

Mitchell and his choir have spent 2 days in Rome and a day in Vatican City. By the end of today they will have performed at 2 mass' and had one 30 minute concert. Toured Ostia Antica, ancient Rome (the Colosseum, and the Forum) and are on their way to Florence. They have several more city's to visit and places to see which I will update on occasion. They will be back Monday night of next week. A 12 day trip.
We are grateful for a choir director with the incite to know how much of a learning experience this is and is making the kids keep a journal every night. I just hope Mitch takes the necessary pictures to go with the journal entries. We miss him.
I have more information on my blog if you would like to read a little more detailed info. clingofam.blogspot.com

Weekend of Dance

Last weekend, Danielle had a dance competition in Bountiful, and since she had to be there at 7:30 AM (yes, 7:30 AM with hair, makeup and costume on!!! insane hour for a 5 year old) she and I decided to invite her cousin Camryn, who dances with her, and my sister Tracey, Cam's mom, for a girls-only weekend. We rented a hotel room in North Salt Lake and had a great night. We took the girls to the Mayan because we knew they would love the diving show (believe me, this was a great sacrifice on the part of us moms...the food there, in my opinion, leaves MUCH to be desired...I got a Subway sandwich after dinner ;) After dinner, we checked into our hotel then went to Temple Square. We ran into some sister missionaries, and when they told Dani she could be a missionary someday, she turned to me and said, "But mommy, I want to be a mommy when I grow up!" It was really cute.

Dani did really well at the competition...she smiled the entire time and didn't look at her teacher once for help with the choreography...way to go Dani!!!

The picture I posted is of Avery, just because I thought it was cute...haha.

My World Traveler

I just checked on Mitchell's first leg on his trip to Italy. They are over Denver on their way to Newark, NJ. I'm a little nervous for him but so excited as well. Kyle told him last night that I wanted him to bring me back a pair of Italian shoes and his response was that he was sure we hadn't given him enough spending money. I wish I had been thinking "shoes" instead of "t-shirt" when I was at the currency exchange office. :)

Happy, Happy Birthday!

We love our two nursery boys. Welcome to all the wonders of 3!!!!

(We would like to wish the mothers of said 3 year olds luck potty training this year.)