Q's Spring Recital

Quincy did it again. She impressed us with the tumbling skills that she learned this year. 

She does such a great job and she is so fun to watch! The recital was at the new Corner Canyon High School in Draper. G-ma and G-pa met us at The Training Table before to get some cheese fries for good luck :)  Way to go Quincy! Super awesome connected front walkovers!

 

Love her to pieces!

Fan Club!

Garner family bash!

Garner Family. My Mom's brother and sister and their kin

The relatives on the Garner side have many birthdays in May. One of them is my cousin Mike's daughter Michaela - who had just received her mission call to Texas - so we made a big deal out of it and celebrated her farewell at a big birthday bash at the cabin.  Growing up we had countless celebrations at the cabin. So many great memories. It was a fun day for all!

Of course, cute Grandma and Grandpa were cooking and helping out

I love this picture of 2 of my favorite gals

Michaela, Marty, and Mike

Michaela, Aunt Sue, Grandma, Aunt Marcia

The Garner originals. Love them lots!

The Zoo

Easter!

On Easter Sunday in their Easter outfits

We spent Easter weekend at the cabin for a fabulous lunch and Easter Egg hunt!

All ready to go hunt for eggs

 

Each kid had their own color to find - that way everyone scores big with plenty of eggs!

 

Coloring eggs:

Sunday morning Easter baskets!  The Easter bunny did not disappoint.  They even got giant chocolate truffle eggs with their names on them. Yum :)

Spring Dance Recital

This year the dance recital was extra neat because both Millie and Quincy performed together.

Millie danced 2 jazz, 1 ballet, 1 contemporary, and 1 novelty.

Quincy danced 1 jazz, 1 ballet, and 1 novelty. The novelty number was the dance finale that was a production number from "Newsies." It was so good! Millie was quite emotional because this was her last time dancing with this company...at least for awhile. She decided to take a break from dance (outside of Timberline dance company at school) to focus on tumbling and other things. It is a very strange thought to think about Millie not having dance competitions or recitals this year!

Anyway they both did a great job and it's always fun to watch them get dolled up and perform on stage. Proud of you girls!

Spring break continues in Las Vegas!

After spending 5 days in California, we drove back to Las Vegas to meet up with the Clarks and spend 4 more days! All but Candice and Doug were able to come so there were lots of cousins! 

We stayed at The Mayan Resort which has an awesome pool with waterslides! 

Thanks Grandma and Grandpa! It was so fun having baby Sunny, Nixon, and Jace there too!

   

Here the kids are messing around at the outdoor shopping on the South end of the Boulevard: 

 The last day we hiked up Red Rock Canyon and the kids were troopers!

Everyone had a blast and it was so fun to be together with this crew!  It is getting harder and harder to go on trips because there are so many family members. Good times!

Dance Comps!

2014 was such a great dance year!  How fun to have both my daughters dancing together at the same studio! Quincy is so luscious in her dance clothes and costumes and just marches right on stage with confidence and sass!  

Millie, as usual danced her heart out and it paid off...

Her dance company (Firelights) won the best award possible AND....

SHE MADE THE TIMBERLINE DANCE COMPANY!

Seems like just yesterday she was performing at her first dance recital:

2014 Winter Olympics at Island Park

 What better way to watch the Winter Olympics than to snuggle up by a cozy fire in a cozy cabin in beautiful Island Park with people you love?!

We went the week before Valentine's Day and we enjoyed every minute. We left later in the evening so the kids slept most of the way and when we arrived at midnight, it was -34 degrees!  Brrr!

For the next 5 days we watched did lot of snowmobiling, a lot of olympic watching, a lot of playing in the snow, a lot of relaxing, and a lot of eating delicious food like homemade corn dogs :)

A few high lights:

-Millie and Sambo are official pros at driving their own snowmobiles and they did a great job keeping    up with the bunch! Will did some driving too, in fact he and Sambo traded off.

 -The kids {with the help of BS} dug/built an enormous awesome snow cave.

- We snowmobiled to West Yellowstone and celebrated the Jan/Feb birthdays at a party at Wild West.

- Watching the skiing, figure skating, and snowboarding Olympic events in our jammies!

1.Snow fort  2.Quinny & Grandpa  3.Lots of snow&blue skies!  4.The gang

 1.Chilly!  2.The trail to Yellowstone  3.Will  4.Millie & Alix  5.Quin & Bode 

 1. Grandma & Grandpa  2.Holly & Heidi  3.Sleeping Quin & BS  4.Sam & Holly

5.Mills & Grandma  6.Sambo & Millie

 1.Inside the fort  2.Wild West Pizza party  3.Chops {LOVES going}  4.Big Springs bridge

Some indoor fun:

Making donuts and corn dogs!  

Opening Valentines from Grandma