February Happenings

 

A couple weeks ago Cannon had ballet and contemporary performances down in Provo.  The ballet part was excerpts from Swan Lake and his contemporary number was Roses.  It is such a joy to watch the boys dance.  To see the improvement from year to year.  As the only boys in their classes, they get really cool parts and solos.  Looking forward to their next shows in May.  We feel so fortunate to have landed where we have with Central Utah Ballet.

Even though Greta is young, we don't hesitate to take her to performances, because she is enthralled by the dancers or actors.  The hardest part for her is not getting up and dancing in the aisles herself.  At intermission she raced out to the lobby to dance and practice for "when she does the Nutcracker".   Here is a link to her lobby dance.

And now for my favorite picture of this week-- Greta giving a fully committed performance of "Let it Go".  Here is a link to the whole inspiring performance.  Maybe you don't want to watch the whole thing, but don't miss the last note!  It's worth it.
Cannon is changing from kid to teenager right before my eyes.  

Living with Cannon is a lot of fun.  

This moment was on a Friday night when he was bummed that none of his friends were available to hangout.  So he put on the song "All By Myself" on our Echo Dot and poured himself a glass of chocolate milk and dramatized his despondency.  Of course it ended with all of us in hysterics. 

How cute is this?  Faith has a side hustle teaching gymnastics with little girls in our neighborhood.  She is such an encouraging, energetic teacher.

Peter and Greta with his latest Kiwi Crate creation.  They are all fun, but he really enjoyed this one.

Greta is really embracing the cheetah print.  The are kitties, after all.

Greta was my little yoga buddy.

Our family performed a musical number-- "I Will Walk With Jesus" in our virtual stake conference last weekend.  A member of the Stake Presidency asked us a couple of months ago and so we had plenty of time to prepare.  We figure they wanted a choir, but since that wasn't an option because of COVID-- they asked the biggest family that was at least halfway decently musical.  Enter the Fox Family:)

People were very kind and complimentary and even if that's just the being nice, we'll take it!  Some of us were pretty nervous to do it. 

Bethany came home from school for the weekend to sing with us, because let's be honest-- we were not  about to sing publicly without our best singer.  She also had some mission interview business to take care of.

Abe went with the Deacons quorum on an activity to Scales and Tails where one of the Priests in our ward works.  Considering how I feel about spiders, just putting this picture on here feels very brave and yet disturbing to me.

Funny to think that in Clark's day, our basement was basically a reptile rescue center.  That seems so gross to me now, but it's amazing what parents will do for their kids.

Camille and me  on a very cold and snowy morning walk. So committed.  I am very fond of walking-- even in inclement weather.

Greta and her best gal pal.  They had Elsa and Anna hairstyles. 

I could eat them up.

Abe and I thoroughly enjoyed a date night with our dear friends, the Johansens.  They lived in our neighborhood until about four years ago.  Now we are down in their neck of the woods often with our drives to Utah County for dance and swim.  Also she was my morning walking partner for years.  This morning I took Faith to early swim at 6:15 and we met up and walked and talked like old times.  Since it's looking like I'll be down their for 5 AM on Tuesdays and Thursdays and 6 AM on Saturdays, hopefully we can walk again more often.

When Bethany was home last weekend we went to go see Alta High School's production of the The Little Mermaid.  It was a lot of fun and now Greta has been watching the movie over and over.  It is such a treat to go to any kind of live performance these days.

You know what else is sounding really good right now?  A date with Abe!  He has been gone since Wednesday and I'm READY for him to come home.