Dancing Queens

Once again my little girls had their Charisma Studios dance recital!! It is months of preparation up to this point, with each girl learning one tap and one ballet routine. Camie made it to dance class almost every week, but we kept forgetting to make it to Kaitlin's dance class because it was Friday afternoon at 4:30. Apperently I am not capable of remembering anything that is scheduled once I am in weekend mode. Anyway, we did manage to start making it to class a month and a half before the recital and luckily Kaitlin was able to pick up everything very quickly. Both girls did great at the recital. Camie danced to "Baby Face" and "Rubber Ducky" and Kaitlin danced to "A Spoon Full of Sugar" and "Beauty and the Beast". If I had any technical savvy I would try to post clips of their recital, but since I don't, you will just have to imagine. At the end, Kaitlin received a trophy for attending four years of dance classes. It is her very first actual trophy (t-ball is too cheap and only gives out medals) and she is incredibly proud of it.

Here is Camie in all of her fluffy, be-dazzled glory. She loves all of the over the top costumes and will also take any opportunity to be in full make-up. Love the hat, by the way. Do you think that they make them in adult sizes? :)

Here is Kaitlin in one of her "beautiful model" poses that she so desperately loves. Her costume is not nearly as be-dazzled and shiny as Camie's, much to her chagrin, but we made up for it by her elaborate hair-do (I should have taken I picture from the back so you could ooooh and aaaah over my fine work) and her full make-up complete with shimmery glitter and purple lipstick. A little girls dream for sure.

I am very proud of my sweet little girls and I am happy that they have the opportunity to learn new things. I'm also happy that they were able to do something every week that they thoroughly enjoyed. We are very blessed indeed.

Gratuitous Drug Use?

Well, it has been a while since I have last posted, and for good reason. I have spent the past month fighting off the sinus infection from you know where, which has left me in a prescription drug/antibiotic induced haze.



Fun, I know. Don't be jealous. I can pass it on to you for a very minimal fee. Then you too can have the sensation of sledgehammers smacking you on your skull. I'll also throw in itchy throat, watery eyes and crazy fatigue as well. As a bonus, dizziness and nausea are also included. Ear infections are extra $$, but I do have some to throw around if the price is right. Hurry up and order this wonderful experience before it goes away. Operators are standing by.

Fishing with Dad

Earlier this week Becky needed a break, so I decided to get out of the house with the girls. I decided to use the fishing license I bought last year and haven't used much. The girls and I packed up and headed up to Spanish Fork Reservoir. It is a great place to go with young kids because it is easy to catch fish and close. We had a blast and each of us caught a fish. Here are the girls holding up some of the fish.

















Camie caught the second fish and when I was trying to remove the hook, I got a big suprise. It apparently was a very fertile fish and was full of eggs. The eggs started falling all over the ground. The girls thought it was the coolest thing and they were picking them up. Luckily they are to young to ask any questions and thought that it was cool. Here is a picture of the eggs since I know all of you were wondering what trout eggs look like!


















Anyways, we had a great time. Nothing better than spending time with the kids and not having my pager go off.

Come, come ye saints...Please?

After we found our house, we decided to tour around our soon to be hometown to see what it had to offer. We toured the town square, with the historic county courthouse...





Checked out the beautiful architecture and the amazing stained glass dome...

And decided that we would like to go and find the church that we will be attending in just a few months time.

Oh wait... is that a church or a strip mall? Why it's both!!!

Never in my life did I imagine going to church at the same place where I could buy a slurpee and get my nails done. Sweet. Also, we were told that church attendance is 20-30 people on a good day. I guess you are about to know a relief society teacher/primary chorister/visiting teaching supervisor/ward pianist (who can barely play)/scout leader. Am I missing anything? Can't wait. ;0)

Happy House Hunting!!

I can't believe that we actually did it, but we bought a house!!!! I seriously thought that this day would never come. Here it is in all of it's glory. It is over one hundred years old, has an acre of land and is around 3,000 square feet. It has such character and I am really excited to be able to get to work on it and make it my own.




This is a picture of our back yard. The present owner did alot of work on it and it has a great pergola and deck in the back. He also planted over 3000 bulbs in the front and back, so in the springtime it will be really beautiful.

This is our front room. I love the window it has and it has really great hardwood floors as well.

This is the dining room. It has the same great hardwood as the living room and a great light fixture .

This is the kitchen. It has amish-made cabinets (shout out to amish) and great appliances. It has carpet in part of it (what they were thinking I will never know), but it is still cute and it will look better once I start ripping things out.

I'll post some more picture next time I blog, hopefully, so you can see some of the upstairs as well. We are so excited about this whole house buying thing and about finally having something to call our own. Hopefully all of the loan process goes smoothly and everything goes as planned.

The Suite Life of Rob and Becky

We arrived in Illinois today with the goal to pick out our new house!!! We made it here with no problems, except for the fact that we left Rob's briefcase, with his laptop and our camera, sitting on a curb in a St. Louis parking garage. No big deal at all, of course......Yeah......And no big deal that we left it in the most crime ridden city in the nation (just passed up Detriot......congrats St. Louis!) Hmmm, like I said no big deal.

Anyway, despite the fact that we didn't realize it was gone until we had almost reached the Illinois state line and despite the fact that we left it in the ghetto we were blessed and some good samaritan found it and took it straight to the airport police. We were able to pick it up right away and only lost about an hour of travel time.

We made it to our hotel and we were greeted with this in the lobby:

The kids loved it and it made my day too. We were also very happy because they had upgraded our hotel room to a suite!! Last time we stayed at this hotel, we were in a room with water leaking from the roof. We called them and told them about it and asked them for a new room. They just came and just moved our beds and swore up and down that all of their rooms were full. It started leaking more and more throughout the day and by the nightime it was incredibly wet and incredibly loud from all of the dripping. I went to the lobby and threw a fit and miraculously (cue angelic music) they had JUST had a room open up at 2 in the morning. How wonderful. Anyway, long story short, they owed us something for our next trip.

The kids loved taking a bath in the huge whirlpool tub:

And jumping up and down on the two king beds:

And they loved watching TV in the little living room:

It's not much, but it made our day much better because we felt like we go something extra. Score for the Mehls!!!

We'll try to keep you posted on our house hunting advertures during the week, if I am not stricken blind by the overzealous use of faux wood paneling, bad 80's flashback wallpaper and American flag wall borders that seem to abound in these parts. Pray for me.

Sacrifical Peeps

So we had a pretty good Easter this year. The night before Easter Becky got the easter baskets ready for the kids because I fell asleep. The next morning, the kids brought their baskets up to show us. The first thing that I saw were Peeps on a stick. I had never seen this before and I started laughing like crazy. I asked Becky what they were. She said that she hated touching the Peeps because they are crusty and gooey. To avoid touching them, she put them on the sticks. I told her that they looked like sacrifical Peeps and we laughed together for five minutes. Here are some pictures of the sacrifical Peeps.

The girls had a fun day. We had a easter egg hunt in our backyard and a scavenger hunt for an Easter Prize. The girls got new Easter dresses which is always fun for them since they love princesses and dresses. Here's a picture of them in their dresses. The lighting is not that good but they will only stay clean and with cute hair temporarily, so you have to take pictures as fast as you can.