Drivers!!!

This week has been Spring Break for a lot of people so we have had a lot of extra drivers around town. I don't normally notice all the extra drivers except during the Huntsman Senior Games in the Fall, but this week has been different.

Yesterday we were on our way back from piano lessons and I exited the freeway at Bluff. I had to turn left to go to Ivins and there was a car in front of me that really looked lost and kept switching lanes. I was stopped at the light and the women in the car next to me (the lost car) motioned for me to roll down my window. They asked if this was the exit for Red Mountain Spa. I told them it was and they asked me for directions.

Now, there are a few places in the St. George area that, if you aren't paying attention, are tricky and you could very easily end up back in Vegas. One of those places is on Bluff when you get to Sunset. In order to go to Ivins across Sunset, there is a dedicated right lane so you don't have to stop at the light and you can't go straight in any other lane. But there are a lot of near accidents at the intersection because people don't realize they can't continue straight in any lane other than the right. So they try to veer over to the right without looking and it's a mess.

I nicely told these women that they needed to turn left onto Bluff and then stay in the right hand lane through Sunset and then turn left at Snow Canyon Parkway. From there it is really easy to find the Spa. I repeated again that they needed to stay in the right lane until they passed Sunset or they would get lost. They nodded, rolled up their window and went their way.

When we got close to Sunset I noticed them up ahead, still in the left lane. I knew what was going to happen...and it did. Suddenly they sped up, veered to the right, almost hit a couple of cars who had to slam on their breaks and swerve to miss the women and then they ran through the red light at the left turn onto Snow Canyon!!! I about died!

So if anyone knows two middle-aged CRAZY women driving a white rental car trying to find Red Mountain spa, tell them to listen to directions next time!!

Funny Courtney

Courtney always goes outside to be with the bus stop kids before they load on the bus. They usually play tag but this morning they played karate, or something like that. I was inside cleaning up and I could hear Courtney outside making funny noises. After the bus left, she came inside and began waving her arms around and saying "hi-ya!" It was so funny that I just had to video tape it!

I'm pretty sure she would be safe if anyone ever attacked her because they would either die laughing or realize that she is just too much for them! ;)

Easter Sunday

I made Courtney a new Easter dress. I made Ethan a new tie from one of Bryan's old ones and then bought him a new shirt and Church pants to go with it. The Easter Bunny isn't much in our house so they only got a little box of chocolates each (plus a Easter treat from Grandma Pack), but they loved their clothes.

I got them all ready, took their picture and then Ethan began to complain of a stomach ache. He ended up staying home from Church (too much candy made him pretty sick!) but Courtney went and showed everyone her new dress.

Courtney's Dance Recital

How well do I know my daughter? Well enough to know that I had to take pictures during the practice because she probably wasn't going to get back on stage for the performance. So I have a slide show of the practice, but you'll get the idea.

Courtney and I ran to downtown St. George to Heritage Square for her dance recital. It was at an outdoor stage and it was cold and rainy. I hadn't thought about this when we left so I didn't even grab her a coat. We had to run to the dance studio to pick up her costume and then we drove quick to the Square, got her dressed in a bathroom and lined up for practice. But it was so cold!! Here she was in this little tutu costume and tights...and freezing!

I put her in my coat with me to get her warm but she wasn't too happy. She wanted "daddy!" in the worst way and he wasn't there yet. When it was her group's turn to get on stage for the run-through, she went up without a problem because she was wearing my coat and it wasn't raining too badly.

Bryan and Ethan arrived, along with my parents, and I started taking pictures knowing that she probably was going to freeze and refuse to get up on the stage. And I was right. I took her up when it was their turn at the performance and, when I told her I had to take the coat, she began to scream and cry. So she ended up sitting on Bryan's lap watching her friends. She thought they did "great!" Bryan took video of the dance, so it you want to see Courtney's friends dance, let me know. You can see what her costume looks like because the other girls aren't wearing such large coats.

After the recital, Courtney's dance teacher told her that they would never make her dance in a recital if she didn't want to. But Courtney told her that in a couple of weeks when the recital is indoors, she will be happy to dance. So maybe we'll get a video of her then!

(Bryan can't wait for soccer season to start!)

Special Egg Hunt

Our neighborhood has a big Easter Egg Hunt every year. It's been so much fun because every family is responsible for filling eggs (12 eggs per child they will have attending from their family), delivering them to the organizers and then bringing either juice or muffins the morning of the hunt. Courtney had a surprise dance recital come up that was going to be at the same time as the egg hunt, so she decided to have her own hunt in our backyard early Saturday morning instead. Ethan was going to hide the eggs for her, but it was really cold, so he had me do it. I had one huge purple egg for Ethan to hide so he wouldn't feel bad and then 12 eggs for Courtney.

I hid the eggs on the patio since it had rained the night before and the lawn was soaked. Then we let them go. Courtney loved it and Ethan had fun finding his one egg. We hadn't put much candy in her eggs, but she still had fun finding out what was inside them.

Ethan and Bryan stayed home when Courtney and I went to the dance recital rehearsal and went to the neighborhood hunt and said that it was over really fast since all the kids were cold and it was wet. But Ethan had fun! I'll post picture of him later when I get them developed. It was so cold they didn't even take the usual neighborhood children group photo.

Ethan's Finished Room...kind of

I haven't hung anything on the walls yet (I still have to paint a shelf that Bryan made for Ethan's trophies) but the bed is back and the new bedspread is on the bed. Ethan walked in after school and said, "Oh baby, I'm home!" I thought that was 6-year-old talk for "Cool, thanks Mom for all your hard work. I'll try to keep it clean for as long as possible." I can dream, can't I?!

Ethan's First Game!

Ethan had his first little league game on Thursday and he did great! He started on first base and made a couple of impressive stops. He was hitting really nicely also. It was coach pitch and every player gets to hit the ball before they switch positions, so in an hour there were only 2 innings. The second inning Ethan was in left field and he liked it. His second time at bat he his a long drive to left field that he could have gotten to second base on, but they are just learning where the bases are so he stopped at first. It was fun to watch him and he had a great time. The dugout was kind of like a cage full of monkeys with little boys bouncing all over and jumping off the benches, but they enjoyed themselves.