Caberet and Region Choir Performance!

Ella has really thrived in the choir program this year. She is in Acapella and Madrigals and loves it! She recently had a Cabaret performance. She had a few songs she peformed as a Madrigals combined choir and as just women. 

We love to come watch her at all these performances.

During her Madrigals performances through the season, she gets to wear this costume!

She also tried out for Region Choir and made it through in the top 3! After region she made it through the next round to pre area auditions and that will happen at the end of November. 

We got to watch her Region Choir performance that they do with everyone. She made the mixed choir which is the highest. 

She is grateful to have fun choir friends to share these experiences with!

I love watching her develop her talents and can't wait to see what she does! 

Ella is College Bound

Ella is quickly approaching her last semester as a high school senior and I am so proud of all her accomplishments. She performed at our stake cultural night and when she got home she opened a letter from SUU. She had been accepted electronically, so she assumed it was just the formal letter in the mail. She, however, was overjoyed to open it to see that she had been awarded a scholarship to SUU that would help substantially!! As you can see from the picture I took right after she opened it, she was overjoyed with emotion! 

She immediately called her dad to tell him the news!

She has felt strongly for about a year and a half that she is supposed to go to SUU for whatever reason. She has had several promptings and even though it's small and not what she intended, this was the last answer to her prayers. Since she felt pretty strongly about SUU she only applied to one other school, USU. She also received acceptance and a scholarship there, but as of right now plans to attend SUU. 

Here is her senior photo! She looks so old! I am so sad she will be leaving us soon, but know she is going to do great things!

Halloween 2023

Halloween is one of those holiday's that I could be just fine skipping over. None of my children particularly care for it either. Channing is the only one who even somewhat gets into it, and mostly because her friends do. This year her friends wanted to dress up as different princesses. Obviously she looks very similar to Anna from Frozen, so that is who she was!

We have Elsa, Rapunzel, Bell, Jasmine, Anna, Tiona, and Cinderella. They look adorable!

Scenes from their movie!

I love how even at almost 13 years old they still are happy to be princesses ;)

Deacon went as Waldo again since he had it from last year. He trick or treated with his friends and had a good time.

Cavin came home late from football, threw on a pink cowboy hat from his sister and left for a Halloween party and trick or treating with friends. Ella was boring and chose to hand out candy and do homework! Another Halloween in the books!

Homecoming 2023- Ella's Senior Year!

Last weekend Ella went to her last Atascocita high school Homecoming. She went with a big group of her friends and had a great time. They went and took pictures, then went to dinner at Nara Thai, then to the dance, then to the Wharton's house for a pool party. 

The gals!

The guys!

I'm grateful she has such a fun group of friends who she enjoys being with and who are such good kids. 

Sadly, Cavin would not go with the groups he was invited with as he did not want to go. He did have fun at an after party he decided to go to though. Hopefully he will go next year. 

Music Time!

Ella and Cavin had their first concerts. Ella had a choir concert and they both had an orchestra concert. 

I love my cello kids!

Cavin is in the Symphonic orchestra, which is the second highest. 

Ella plays in the top orchestra, Chamber. 

I love when they play and will miss their concerts together. 

Ragnar is 46!

Last week Ragnar turned 46!! We went with some friends to do a pickle ball and pizza night as couples and had a lot of fun. His actual birthday was low key as it was a Monday, but we went to Salt Grass for lunch together and tried to celebrate. He got a high fever that night and didn't feel well, so not much fun for a birthday!

He loves chocolate chip bundt cake, so we celebrated with cake and ice cream. 

The kids love to decorate the house for him. 

We also did a celebration with my parents over conference weekend and my mom made him a yummy cookies and cream ice cream cake. 

We are so grateful to have Ragnar in our life. We hope and pray that we have many more years with our favorite guy!

Soccer Season Has Begun!

The much anticipated soccer season for Deacon has begun. This is the first year in a long time where just Deacon is playing in the Heatwave organization. Ragnar is coaching his team and he is so excited. They are the Teal Titans. He has moved up and is now playing U12, so he has to step it up! A little more than half of the players on his team he has been with for 4 years, but instead of Wes coaching, Ragnar has taken over. They are 4 games into the season now and have already won each game by a good margin. Last week Deacon scored 4 of the 5 goals and had a great game. He has a lot of skill, but he sometimes lacks aggression. Since the kids he plays against are 3 years older, sometimes he gets intimidated and doesn't run and fight for the ball as aggressively as he could, but he is a great player, continues to improve and we love to watch him play!

We were missing 1 boy. 

Soccer dreams coming true!

Goal!!

Our cute lefty!

I hope he continues to love playing and gets better and better.