...Well, she is now an outstanding musician starting up the Ozarks Girls Chorus out there in ArKANsas (I like to tease). With her husband and...COUNT 'EM... 4 girls!! She came to town on her way to Germany, go figure, and we met up. You know the kind of friend, where you can go a year or so without talking at all and suddenly one day get a phone call that lasts hours...thats this friendship. We went swimming and watched a movie...what fun...maybe one of these cuties could end up in my family someday? I couldn't wish for better in-laws for my guys!
Monday, June 29, 2009
Good Friends
Have you ever met someone with whom you immediately feel a kind of bond with? I have, not too many, but when it happens it seems to stick! My first day at UofA, or close to it, I literally ran into this crazy girl in the hallway of the music building. Both of us were lost, it turns out, and oddly we struck up a sort of conversation. We were close to the same age, both talk too much, both a little energetic for our own good, both getting our Masters, both relative newlyweds, both did our undergrad at the Y, both repeating quite a few courses because we failed the diagnostics...(they expect you to retain that stuff?)...the list goes on. We had an immediate kinship.
...Well, she is now an outstanding musician starting up the Ozarks Girls Chorus out there in ArKANsas (I like to tease). With her husband and...COUNT 'EM... 4 girls!! She came to town on her way to Germany, go figure, and we met up. You know the kind of friend, where you can go a year or so without talking at all and suddenly one day get a phone call that lasts hours...thats this friendship. We went swimming and watched a movie...what fun...maybe one of these cuties could end up in my family someday? I couldn't wish for better in-laws for my guys!
Friday, June 26, 2009
RoCK StARs!!
We enrolled in Miss Jenee's That's Entertainment workshop this year...a high intensity 2 week musical workshop.So much FUN! Monte had it hard dancing and practicing every day for about 4 hours!! Seth and Clyde had less movement to learn but more songs...everyday for an hour and 1/2. It was a long haul for two weeks commuting them to the Queen Creek studio, but worth every penny and every minute in the car! I was SO PROUD of my little Rock stars! They still perform their shows for me when I turn on their music CD! (It's crazy to think that I used to help her run this workshop 12 years ago when Monte and I were just engaged, and then a few years after that when we lived in AZ as newlyweds...time flies!)
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
DaDDy DaDDy, DaDDy
RoCK StaR!
There is this magical "spiker gel" we came upon a few years back that can actually handle the Gardiner Cow-licks...we fondly refer to it at our house as "liquid nails" for hair. It came in quite handy today for the crazy hair day at Miss Jenee's summer work shop. I just had to put in the two pictures so you could see how high it actually stood...and it DID stay! For over 3 hours of rehearsal and summer sweat and well into the evening, that is, until we swam!
Monday, June 15, 2009
Lake Powell
The day after Kindergarten Graduation...all school aged grandchildren, their Dads and Grandpa went to Lake powell for a weekend...How FUN!!!
4 families represented
By all accounts the weather was crazy cold and raining one minute to hotter than hot and dry the next, how FUN! Thanks to Uncle Rob and Uncle David for their boats and to Grandpa for trying...there's always one on the fritz in the Arnett clan...just wouldn't be a Lake trip without that! They hiked to hol ein the Rock, and camped and played and tubed and skii'd anddrove out to rainbow bridge...well, you get the picture!
graduations
We had Miss Dillon at Patterson Elementary for more than 3/4 of the year...and she was AweSomE...but there was something very special about Miss Hann that Monte took to right away. She was our teacher at Meridian for his 2 month stay finishing out the year. He was always one for the pretty ladies!! Seth and Clyde should be so lucky as to get her when they arrive at Meridian!
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Mother's Day Tea at Pre-school!!
I felt so SPECIAL!! Thank you Seth and Clyde! (for those of you without the Mommy know how...Clyde is in the Gardiner T-shirt, Seth the transformer!)
The hard part of the trip was #1 a sick baby. Jackson had been throwing up for 3 days before we left. My thinking in taking him was, "How long can it last? He'll feel better soon." Well, he didn't... I finally called my Aunt (a pediatric nurse practitioner for the last 50 years) and listed his symptoms, 6 days of him keeping nothing down at all, falling over, chapped bleeding lips, red chapped cheeks, no pee pee diapers in a 24 hour period...to which she replied, "Take him to the ER now and get him hydrated!"...so we DID!
Utah...again
We went on a "quick trip" to Utah to our cousin Eric's farewell. Coming from the triple digits in AZ we were in NO WAY prepared for Utah Spring! We had to purchase Jackets (2 sizes too big so we could use them again next year)...
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
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