Spring has sprung and with all the fresh green and colorful flowers popping up, we had to focus on GOLD around here. It was Katelee's GOLDEN birthday - 17 on the 17th!!
Katelee wanted make sure we knew what a special birthday this was because it only happens once in all the birthday years you get. We tried to decorate with gold and make her feel special, because she is one fabulous gal.
Katelee is a busy bee- she always has some fun social plans going on every night and is starting back up with lacrosse season- making the VARSITY team this year! We are so excited to watch her play. She is fun and adventurous and adds a little unique blend to this ginger nation we have going on at this house. We love her so so much! She and I went to see MJ at Eccles Theater and had a blast. She is always a party to be with.
Katelee has some seriously hard classes this year and is working so hard to stay on top of them. In particular, she stays after school whenever she can to make sure she is understanding her math classes. She enrolled in math 1050 and math 1060 so she will get college credit and she has the best teacher ever, Mr Murphy. He thinks Katelee is the best student ever in return, because he chose her as his one pick of the year to be the student of the month!
Each teacher at the high school gets one turn a year to choose a student who they think should be honored. He said many years it is hard to pick, but this year it was not a hard decision. He was so complimentary of Katelee's work ethic and attitude and he said he wished he had a whole classroom of Katelees. We loved driving by the school seeing her face as the marquis rotated...even if she said she didn't like the picture. Mr Murphy said that he hopes everyone that drives by thinks the school is full of Katelee McArthurs. The school would be one amazing place if that were true. Super proud of this girl!
Our other gal, Miss Brenna is also rocking the gold, but just for one of her dances. Competition season started beginning of March so she is performing and dancing all week and most of the weekends. She is right in her element and loving every minute.
At the end of March, we had our spring break. It seemed a bit early for spring break, of course we are always happy with a little school reprieve, although later in the year is more ideal. We decided to hit up our beautiful southern Utah for a couple of days.
It was pretty chilly the first day. We went to Deadhorse Point and discovered Brenna did not have hiking shoes for this hiking trip, so after a shoe snafoo and negotiations on who could wear what shoes, we were set for some hikes. Canyonlands was a big hit and Arches is always incredibly stunning.
We decided to sleep in the next day so we wouldn't be hiking in 35 degree weather, once the sun got up it was motivation to be on the trails and keep moving to get some heat in our bones. It ended up being lovely weather and good times.
After time with nature, we went for the opposite feel...on to Las Vegas. Harrison had recently expressed his desire to go places with 'extremes in precipitation' to quote him exactly. While we didn't get the precipitation, we did have extreme temperature changes. We walked the strip a little, stopping at Brenna's beloved Sephora and Lids for Harrison. The girls and Dave went to the Las Vegas temple to do baptisms. Since Harrison is not quite old enough, he and I went to the Meow Wolf Megamart Art exhibit.
We will need to bring the rest of the fam back one day for a trippy art experience. We loved finding all the hidden gateways that take you from a funky grocery store exhibit to another dimension...
We found quite the hilarious products in the megamart...
We had a great night on the town going to a fancy Italian family style restaurant and to the Cirque de Soleil 'O' show at the Bellagio. Those performances are always incredible and slightly disturbing! Are people supposed to bend like that?! Of course one of our favorite things to do on a trip is eat...and we put it away at the Wicked Spoon buffet. Harrison told us he capped out at 10 pancakes. That was just part of his meal-there was a whole lot of bacon going on at that table, mingled with ice cream and crab legs and all the goods.
It was nice having a little getaway together. The kids don't love smooshing in the small car, but we love the prepaid gas situation and they were good sports about it. We got back from our trip determined to jump in and finish the next couple months of school and activities strong. We started seeing buds and flowers pushing up and Harrison came in one day after playing outside telling me, in a slightly disgusted tone, that we had beets. He was relaying this like we had an infestation of these undesirable beets. I was confused for a minute as he was telling me not to worry, because he pulled out everyone he could see. It took me a minute to realize these 'beets' were the bulbs of my tulips. Things don't always look great but with time and care, they become something beautiful, something that brings happiness, something that can be golden. We salvaged what we could of the discarded bulb/beets and will see how things turn out. Of course, Harry felt bad, but who would have thought an ugly brown ball is the source of a beautiful flower...now he knows. Don't discount the hidden beets-we've got something great about to pop in the right conditions!
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