Paper cranes

1000 paper cranes for a family we love.  I am so happy to have been involved with this project.

Head Shots

Bri got her head shots back for her musical theater class.  They turned out so good.  She is beautiful!

Finally!

I have been working for months getting things ready to post on Etsy and officially open my shop.  I finally took that big step and got it all done.  Hopefully things will interest people and it will be worth my time and effort!

Stop by and take a look!  http://jolocrafts.etsy.com

Excited for Halloween!

I was very excited to be able to make another costume for Bri.  Last year we had proclaimed it the last year for trick-or-treating, but this year she wanted a costume for a costume party and to "scare" the trick-or-treaters!  She has never been anything creepy, but this year we went with a ballerina zombie!  She had a lot of fun at her costume party last night...creepy little girlie....

Tzeitel...

Bri is in a musical theater class, which is basically the cast of the school play next spring.  She has been learning about auditioning and then had to do auditions last week.  They had to do a monologue and a solo song.  She practiced very hard and was confident going to auditions, which were in front of her class of 100+ students.  They are casting two full casts and they will learn two parts, each will perform every other night.  On Thursday she found out that she got the part of Tzeitel, one of the main parts in the play "Fiddler on the Roof".  She is one of only a few 7th graders to get a main part.  We are so very proud of her and she is excited for the play in February. (She also has an ensemble part in the alternate cast).

I caught a fish!

Last weekend we had a fun day fishing at Little Creek Reservoir.  It is basically a large mud puddle south of Bear Lake.  JT and Bri had really good luck, and even I caught a fish!  

Crazy hair?

It is Crazy Hair day at Bri's school...I think she just looks cute!  All she needs is a perm!  We were going to do a ponytail mohawk, but I told her I could give her my big hair and she was super excited.  Today she is auditioning for the school play...I hope the judges don't get distracted by her hair!

Back to school

SEVENTH GRADE!!!!

(what happened to my tiny baby!)

Oh, there she is!! (I was just talking to my cousin Judy about my mom and how she love to hold babies.  This is one of my favorite shots of Breezy and my mom.)

Music recital

Bri has been taking music lessons for several years.  She plays the piano and takes voice lessons.  I promised her that I would not post any video of her, but the pictures are too cute to pass up! 

One last hurrah

We wanted to get in a camping trip before the end of the summer.  We went to Grand Teton National Park and Yellowstone National park.   We went to the same place last summer and had a blast, so we decided to go again.  While there we: rode our bikes along the Teton mountain range, went horseback riding, saw a bear in the wild for the first time, got rained on and found out that our tent is NOT waterproof (it now lives at D.I.), went to a few places in Yellowstone that we have never stopped at before, left the jackets we brought with us in our tent and had to buy new hoodies because it was so cold, took Yeager camping for more than one night...and he was a very good dog. Yeager got to go spend a day at a "pet resort" so we could do some activities without him, but I don't think it was all that glamorous!  We love spending time together as a family, and we have decided to make this a yearly destination, it is beautiful there!