Did Everyone Miss Me???

Well, it certainly has been a long time since I last blogged...I've been busy. And I've noticed that this blogging is kind of writing in a journal if you don't do it every day or every few days, you get so behind that you're like, 'what's the point? So much has happened, I don't know where to begin!' Okay, really, not that much has happened per se, but I feel like it's been so long that I don't even know what to talk about.

We went to Utah for President Hinckley's funeral which was so lovely! Inititally only Carson was going to go but then we decided to we would all go over. It was a nice experience and the funeral very humble. Just the way President Hinckely would have wanted it. We got to spend some time with friends and family and we had a great time. We threw a super bowl party that I enjoyed much more than I expected.

Siobhan is doing great. She's enjoying going to dance classes with mom and going to her own dance class as well. She's very busy being a precocious two year old. Always getting into things when I'm not looking. It never fails that when I go upstairs to get something, it's not unusual for me to come down and find her standing on a chair 'doing the dishes' or tossing the dog food around saying that she's 'feeding the Tonks' or haphazardly scooping formula into a bottle apparently 'getting milk for Audrey Baby' (most of it ends up on the floor and for that she has to run a get the swiffer wet jet to 'clean up'). What a goof ball. She really is being so good because I know she's just trying to help. The potty training is going okay in some ways and not okay in other ways. She can wear panties and will hold it forever without having an accident so I can take her pretty much anywhere for a few hours without issues. But when she tries to go on the potty she get's freaked out and won't go. So we're working on it.

I can't believe that Audrey is 7 1/2 months old! She's sitting up so good and is almost crawling! She loves to eat her solid food and her favorite is by far Avacado. We finally got her sleeping a good amount of time at night which makes my life much easier. She still wakes up at least one time a night, so she's not out of our closet yet. She doesn't eat when she wakes up so I think that it's just a matter of time until she can sooth herself back to sleep. She also broke her first two teath last week. Yup, two within 24 hours of each other. hance, the runny nose and cranky disposition. Poor girl.

I've been going a lot of dancing. It seems like I'm always either teaching, choreographing, rehearsing, or at a competition. It's a good thing I love it. The senior company that I teach had their first competition a few weeks ago and they scored a gold award so I was very excited given the level of competition. It's nice compliment to have a piece of art that I created performed so well and scored well also. But it seemed the judges were more interested in the costuming rather than choreography, so I was little bothered by that. I find with these competitions, I become more and more disillusioned with the comeptition world anyway. When I own my own studio, we won't compete we will only give concerts. I think that makes you more a well rounded dancer anyway. I've been sick the last few days but I'm feeling better, finally, and hopefully I'm close to being completely over the stomcah virus that I had.

Carson is getting closer and closer to finishing school and we're all very excited about that. No more late nights! Works going alright but he really doesn't like the campus that he works at so we're weighing our options. He's going to stay here until he graduates and then we'll see. He loves the company, but really is having a hard time at this campus. Pray that everything will either look up here or that something will open up somewhere else. We'll see.

Boy, this really sounds like a christmas letter doesn't it?