Whitney 1st Place at EIMTA Sonata Competition

We spent the day at piano recitals.  It was quite the fiasco to get everyone to there judges appointments since they all overlapped and were at three different locations  around the city. We had to divide and conquer. This was Brielle's first year performing. She was a little intimidated by a male judge but she did well for her first year. Yeah Brielle!

Brinley performed at University place and took 1st alternate honorable mention playing La Caroline and Whitney took 1st place playing Beethoven's Tempest. Brinley and Whitney swapped places from last year. We were amazed at how well they all did.  Way to go girls were proud of you! Glad it's over we are so ready to hear some new sounds coming out of the piano. I guess it will be Christmas and festival pieces.

Hogle Zoo and Goofing Around

Hogle Zoo is a lot smaller then what I remembered but it is a nice zoo.

I liked this exhibit the best because we could go inside and it was warm.

Because it was so cold we went through the zoo quickly and saw all the animals. That night we had dinner at Joe's Crab Shack. That is my new favorite restaurant.

On the day that we left Brinley started to play in the mirror so we got some crazy pictures.

Brielle looks like she's jumping!

Planetatarium and The Mayan

After Build a Bear we went to the Planetarium and watched an Imax movie Under The Sea in 3D. It was amazing the animals would swim right out to you. It was the best imax experience I had it didn't make me dizzy and the 3D seemed so real you could touch them.

The Planetarium and some great exhibits. The kids liked learning and playing with everything.

Next we ate at The Mayan restaurant. They had Mexican food with cliff divers. The place was amazing with the tropical forest feel. We were treated to front row seats to all the splashing and cliff diving. The food was actually really good. I was so amazed at the cliff divers I forgot to take pictures of them.

This was supposed to be the fountain but it was frozen over still as you can see the snow on top of it.

Spring Break With The Girls

With everyone going there own direction for Spring Break I decided to take the girls down to Salt Lake City. There first stop had to be Build A Bear. The weather was horrible for Spring Break. It rained the whole time on us. But inside Build A Bear it was warm, friendly and dry.

Brielle has a hard time deciding which friend she should pick.

Brinley picks out clothes.
Filling the bears were a lot of fun. The guy who helped them was pretty crazy. They were
a little shy today because they had the whole store to themselves.

Brielle fluffs her lamb.

Brielle registers her new friend. Her favorite part of build a bear is the online world.

Two happy girls with their new friends Lambykins and Lillykins.

Hugs from girls priceless!