Micah's 1st Guitar Recital

Saturday was Micah's first guitar recital. He has been taking guitar lessons for 3 months now. He had his recital up at the University of Utah.

We have never been to a guitar recital, so we weren't sure how it was going to go. It turned out that you could sing and play if you wanted, you could play acoustic, or you could play with a band.

It was kind of interesting, but many kids sang themselves, or some played and their teacher sang. Some played with a live band. It will be neat to see what Micah chooses to do for his next recital.

For Micah's first live performance he chose to play Paul McCartney's "Blackbird". We took a little video at home for your benefit. We think he is just awesome!



His teacher calls him a natural.

I tried to dress him up cool, yet still somewhat classy. How did I do?

We can't wait until his next recital. Good job Micah!

Happy Birthday America and Utah!

To celebrate our 4th of July we went hiking!

Now, Troy and I and Caleb really love hiking, but Jewelia, Macey and Micah aren't too thrilled about it. I'm sure they had some fun though. Well, they like the snack part.

We went and hiked up by Alta.
It was so green, it almost looked like a fake picture behind us.

Caleb kept on asking us to be careful so we didn't fall down the cliff.

Oh, no, Daddy looks like he might be falling!!!!!

We took just a short little hike, but it was fun! We can't wait to go back when they open up the rest of the trails. They had a lot closed down from the creek flooding a while back.

Dance Pictures Came In!

Yes, so I know you already saw some pictures of my dancers in their cute costumes, but their professional pictures finally came in, so I just had to share.

Here is cute Micah in his tap class. They had a cute army theme:

And here is cute Jewelia with her dance class before she cut her long hair:

And here is Micah again with his ballet class:

I love my cute dancers. Macey can't wait to start dance class. Of course she still has to wait another year until she is 3. (And yes, I love Caleb too. He plays the music for the dancers.)