Here's the thing. They turn 16 then you blink and they are graduated and ready to move on. I'm not kidding. It was lightning fast!
She managed a 4.0 and did it in style and had some fun too. Such a little smarty pants! I know she's nervous about what's next but she'll do great with that too, I just won't have a front row seat. I'll be in the nose bleeds. :(
Congratulation Marisa! You're amazing!
The art ball marked the end of Marisa's term in Art Royalty. I think she enjoyed it and was sad that it was over but also a little relieved.
Here's all the cute outgoing royalty and incoming together.
Their last hurrah was riding in a golf cart in the parade.
The brightness and shadows made taking a picture of her problematic..... She's in there. Sigh
I'm glad she chose to do this though. It was a good experience.
This May was a busy one. They are always busy, but this was just seemed extra somehow. And yet, the bulk of my pictures (besides graduation) are things at Costco, screenshots of random things, random work pictures and pictures of the sky because, gosh darn-it! I want to capture some aurora borealis.... One of the these days.
Anyway, out of all that, there's really probably only two post worth things in there. Concerts (I'll put those here) and Gradation. That get's it's own post.
Ezra had back to back concerts at school. One for guitar class and one for orchestra. I think the double dose of the teacher that teaches both about killed him as he's not taking either next year. Can't say I blame him.
The guitar concert was fun. I think he enjoyed it
The Orchestra concert was good too. They played songs from Movies.
He'll probably never play a cello again. That makes me sad.
He will most definitely play a guitar again. He's obsessed.
Marisa went to the prom with a friend from Ballroom.
She got her dress for $10!! can you even believe it? We couldn't have gotten any luckier
I am months behind on my blog, which is overwhelming. The good news/bad news is that it's really only about five posts to get caught up, so that makes it a little less overwhelming.
In February, Marisa had an all-day dance competition in Lehi. I was able to watch in the afternoon. She's so cute!
This was also the day she found out that she got into BYU. Roman also found out that he got a full scholarship for the year, so even better!
I think Marisa was pretty happy that she did ballroom. I know some of her teammates bugged her but still worth the effort and time. It was always fun to watch them.
Maris and a couple of her friends went to the Sadie Hawkins dance. It was 70's themed so they raided DI and rocked their looks.
I'm glad they go to these dances and have a good time.
We didn't have any big plans for fall break this year. I was ok with that. Sometimes it's nice to just stay close to home.
We did cross of a bucket list item and headed south to Monument Valley. It kills us that we were really quite close to this when we drove to four corners area then on to the Grand Canyon but we just didn't know how close we really were and I'm pretty sure cell service was terrible at that time so I couldn't just look it up.
We took off on Wednesday after school and drove for a few hours to Green River.
Thursday morning we woke up and drove to Monument valley, stopping only for a minute at the hole in the rock. We also stopped at the Monticello Temple for a quick picture.
We stopped at Forest Gump point. It really is such a cool view, but teaming with people. Not nearly as desolate as the movie makes it out to be. Maybe it was back then.
Monument valley full of cool views and huge rock formations.
From there we spend the night in Blanding which is serious small town.
We walked down to Dairy Queen which is also a bowling alley and a gas station... mostly for something to do, but don't worry, the ice cream went down pretty easy.
Friday we went home the long way driving through Glen Canyon which is never dull and stopping to play at another favorite... Goblin Valley.
