Chalk the Block Sept 2015

Chalk the Block in Provo at the River woods was "artfully" done.  I really wanted to do this this year and again life's circumstances prevented me from entering.  Sometimes it is hard to sacrifice the fun for responsibility, but such is life.  

I love this fun medium of art.  It brings us back to the carefree world of childhood when we would chalk all over the sidewalks.  One time while living in California my children and I were playing with sidewalk chalk.  We lived in some gated town homes at the time and leaked our drawing over to our neighbors side of the driveway.  Our drawings were sweet and innocent some even good because I copied out of a coloring book.  Our neighbors were not happy with our creations and scolded us for drawing on their side demanding us to wash it off.  

We took the kids to expose them to some culture.  Sometimes  I think they feel like we shove it down their throats but they really do enjoy it while we are there.  Wherever "there"happens to be.  Plus this time we promised to take them out to dinner.  This is one cultural event that they are slow to warm up to but once the music arrives they love it.  They had this awesome band playing. I think it was the same one a last time.  Either way they were great and my kids could help but just bust a move.  It makes me so happy to see them so carefree and just go with the music regardless of whether or not people are watching.  It tells me that they are happy and maybe I am not such a failure as a mother.  

Ellie Mid Summers Night May 2015

Ellie was in the play a MidSummer Nights Dream.  She was fantastic.  I have never actually seen a MidSummer Nights Dream but I have read it before.  This was done with just her Drama II class so not a huge production but very well done especially for a Junior High School.  The teacher didn't allow mics so the kids all had to be good in projecting their voices.  I was pleased that I could hear them all really well.  The kids did a great job.  Ellie played the part of Philippia Quice.  Her group was the comic relief that were great.

Greek Festival Sept 2015

We finally made it to the Greek festival, which I should mention that it SHOULD be called the Greek FOOD festival because it was all about the food.  The food was very delicious though. My favorite was the rice pilaf and a number of desserts.  They did have some greek dancing that was interesting and we got to take a tour of the Greek Orthodox church.

As we were sitting at the table eating our food Scott looks around at all the people and then looks at me and mentions that I could pass for Greek if I had a bigger nose.  I laughed and said I am actually racially ambiguous. I can pass for quite a few nationalities with the exception of Asian.  Its how I blend in.