dusty’s niece shauna and her fiance’ jason,
were married june 20th, 2009
in ely, nevada {the birthplace of my husband}
ceremony & reception held at the Ely railroad depot-
{reminder: you can double-click on any pictures to see them larger.}
the wedding ceremony~
dusty & his siblings –
dusty*kenny*ruthy{mother of the bride}*nancy*ryan
dusty & his sis nancy are helping their niece pin-up her bustle…
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we have an amazing neighborhood.
this is our second annual kids summer book club.
it’s officially a tradition.
starting last year…{and look here}…once school is out, we ride our bikes to borders book store. each age group/gender chooses the book they are going to all read for the summer. we have lunch at bajio’s, and then ride our bikes back home.
later this summer, each of us mom’s will host one of the age groups for a little book group based on the theme of their book. we’ll have games, treats, etc.
so so fun. and educational!
this is only a portion of our group.
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last week, kiana had boot camp at dance. this was a special week of hard-core training for the junior, teen, and senior companies at center stage. they are preparing for upcoming nationals in hollywood. During the entire week, she put in 36 hours of training! Not including 3 extra hours she had privates for her solo! For a grand total of 39 hours!!! seriously. don’t mess with these dancers.
the boot camp was organized so cute. Each level of dancers had a different army title. The juniors were all “privates.” and everyone was given personalized dog tags. Kiana was “private smiley face!” very appropriate for my smiley performer!
christian & stacy – the generals…
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{borat}
thank you to everyone who helped make our yard sale a
great success!
If you helped spread the word to advertise, if you came & shopped, brought along a friend or someone with you, if you helped us set-up or take-down. In which ever way you were involved…
thank you. thank you. thank you.
we advertised 7-9 am, and we kept a crowd of people till 1pm! and by a “crowd of people,” i mean a CROWD!
these beautiful girls were my cashiers – and they were such incredible helpers, really couldn’t have done it without them! i never once heard a complaint.
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center stage performing arts studio…
ballet department presents-
sleeping beauty, a full-length ballet…
{our ballerina’s just finished three shows in two days at uvu}
featuring:
Myla Rhodes as a “guest at the party”
Kiana Rhodes as a “garland corps”
and Myla Rhodes again as a “sprite”
thank you, thank you, thank you
to everyone who came and supported the rhodes ballerinas…
i took the activity day girls for an activity to see the ballet and they were a darling cheering section for myla.
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my girls have finished their second year of art school. in february they both needed to take a picture to art to start their new pieces and kiana and myla decided together to both take a picture of their younger brother and sister…
after hours, and hours, and hours, the results –
i have the original pictures posted so you can see what they used as a reference
myla did a pastel of kj~.jpg)
and kiana did a pastel of sela~
i absolutely love them! they are now hanging in our home, and maybe one day kj and sela will do art pieces of their older sisters…and I will have a complete collection.
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