We had Caryn’s birthday lunch, ahhh, about 24 days late…whoops. We love you Caryn – Happy Belated Birthday!
The Howell Boys & KJ on Danny’s birthday!
Our kids school has had a “read-a-thon” for the entire month of February. This past week each classroom chose a book/theme and the room Mom a.k.a. Dusty Rhodes in this case were in charge of decorating the door with the chosen theme. In Myla’s class the room DAD set records with his amazing door decor. Hello, professional door decorator! Myla’s class chose “The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane,” and Dusty had “fast signs” make a disposable door sticker…can we say, “wowzers!”
It was Myla’s turn once again for “Traveling Tales.”

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Party like a Rock star!

March 1, 2008

the invitations ~
decor ~
party~We played “name that tune,” and these kids were amazing. Most of them knew all the top 40 songs, who it was, and the name of the song in the first 3 seconds it was played! We had a “Battle of the Bands,” lip syncing contest! We put the kids into 6 bands, they had to choose a song, lead singer, back up singer, back up dancers, guitar player, drummer, etc. We video taped this too, it will be so fun to watch later. Then after all 6 bands were done the kids voted. Myla & Ezra were the band that won! They did SO good! It was cute &

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Happy 10 years Bear!

February 28, 2008

10 years ago today, our girl entered this world. It was 9:36a.m. on a chilly Cedar City day. My life has never been the same, and you know what’s crazy? She keeps making it better…

Here’s a peak at the past decade
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
6th
7th
8th
9th
10th ~ this morning, I started a new Rhodes tradition by giving her one present for every year so far – #10 was the guitar she’s been just dying to have.

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da MONSTER truck show

February 16, 2008

We have returned home high on carbon monoxide `n` deaf. But, other than dat, we had a great evenin wif our neighbors, da Mortons! We had their entar Xango suite just fer our families ta watch da show! yonder ain`t much better fer my 4 year old son than monster trucks, `n` transformin – far spittin – robot trucks. Dem Quads was razin’ themselves all around the circles. da highlight of da evenin was da truck dat fell apart, destruction is always great entertainment. da hood `n` wheel came flying off one as he landed! Then da kids all bought their own mini monster trucks `n` spent time building tracks out of paper plates…LOTS of fun! woo-hoo!!! Thank Yew ta da MOrton family fer a great evenin




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February 15, 2008

my sweet valentines ~ Kiana & MylaSela’s 1st outfit, prior to a day filled with chocolate…Sela’s 2nd outfit…Isn’t the root beer bottle a nice touch?KJ currently has this thing going where he always looks in a different direction than AT the camera. hmmm.

I helped in Myla’s 2nd grade class for their party – first we walked over to the nursing home next door to the school. The kids visited with everyone and handed out Valentine’s they had made, it was really great for them. Shannon Taylor organized the games &

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dancing & surfing

February 10, 2008

This weekend was the “Odyssey Dance Competition” for Kiana, we were lucky enough to have a girls weekend in Ogden, Utah. She did 2 solos on Friday, and she did GREAT! She received a Platinum for VEINS and a HIGH-GOLD for AMAZING MAYZIE. To those of you not in the dance world, I realize that means nothing. I couldn’t get my camera to focus on her first solo – no idea why. But, I did get AMAZYING MAYZIE which is her jazz solo from last year that she’s still competing with. This is it ~

We had a break Friday evening and went to see – We thought it was good,

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