Piano Recital

Today my kids had their piano recital. I am so proud of my kids. They are so talented! I always had a dream that someday I would have a child that would have an amazing talent at the piano, and a child with a beautiful voice. Well, those dreams are coming true. I guess I live through my kids sometimes. These are talents that I wish I could have excelled at and didn't. I love to play the piano, but my daughter Katrena's talent has definately surpassed mine. She is an amazing piano player! The other day I tried to play the piece that she played for the recital. Wow! I felt like a beginner, it was so hard! She did an amazing job with it tonight. I guess this is a brag session, but.... Alicia has really improved this year. She made up a medley on her own and played it. It was a "Legend of Zelda" medley. She made up the music by playing what she had heard off of video games that she has played! No music to look at. I am so proud of her. Anakin is on his second year of playing, and loves it. When it was his turn to play, he went up with a big smile and finished with an even bigger smile:):). Next month I will be adding Mary and Kyra to the piano lessons. Kyra has been so excited about the idea of learning how to play the piano...a couple of months ago I told her she would get to take lessons in the summer. She was so excited that she got out her pink book bag, went upstairs, picked out a few piano books, placed them in the bag and told me she was all ready to learn:) They are both excited to play. We have a wonderful piano teacher. She is so kind and patient with the kids. I really appreciate all that she does for my children. Anyway, that was my brag session about the piano and my family:):):) I love it!!

Second Posting....

Well, let's see. I don't know what to say really, I've never done this before. I guess I will just write about what I have been up to. Chuck is in Salt Lake working. Yesterday I spent a lot of time working outside. I worked on our new little garden. We can't grow much up here in Randolph, but we thought we would try our hand at a few things that should grow here. It will be fun to see what we end up with.

Today I began doing some spring cleaning around the house. I cleaned the upstairs living room from top to bottom. I moved the furniture around and I put new pictures up. It looks much better now. I just wish I had good furniture to inhance the look. Instead I have two ugly old couches that don't match and two old non-matching chairs, and a broken recliner. Okay, I know I'm being negative, but I hope some day to have a beautiful living room with matching furniture.

I am so happy to be home for the summer. It's so great to be able to be home with my kids all day. I really loved my first year of teaching kindergarten, but I definately deserve a break. First year teaching is very, very busy. There is so much planning and preparation. So much of my work had to be done at home. Especially because I had such a large class (32 kindergarteners in a full day kindergarten). I loved the kids in my class. I really learned a lot and I am looking forward to using my new knowledge to make next year an even better year. But, for now, I am going to enjoy the summer and do things with my family.

Over the weekend I visited my family for Memorial Day weekend. On Saturday I put some beautiful flowers on my mom's grave. I sure miss her. I will never stop missing her. I wish my kids could have known her. Katrena is the only one who has any memories of my mom. She was such a wonderful person. She lived a great life. I like to tell stories to my kids about their grandma. It's nice to know that some day I will get to see her again. I love you mom!

Memorial Day

This is my first blog! I am excited to learn how to do this. My sister-in-law, Chelsea is helping me because I'm blog illiterate.