RAD kids

This year in school McKenzie's class is participating in RAD kids. It is a program that teaches them personal saftey techniques. A little more involved than "stranger danger." Well, today was their graduation and the parents were invited to come and see what they have learned. They all put on safety gear- knee pads, elbow pads, gloves, and helmet. Then they went through and obstacle course were they demonstrated some of the techniques they learned. The last obsticle they had was a man- he really was a police officer- dressed up in padding would try to "abduct" the child. They would then fight him off. I took a video of Kenzie fighting off her attacker. I don't know if you can hear it in the video, but Abby was in the backgroung yelling, "Run Kenzio run!"

Say Cheese?

Have you ever had those moments when you really want a cute snapshot of the kids? Well, this afternoon I was thinking just that. But try as I might it was just not happening. These are the few shots I took. The last one ended up being the best.

Festival of Trees

On Wednesday McKenzie was lucky enough to get to dance at the Festival of Trees. She was also pretty darn thrilled that I got to check her out of school early. Her group danced to Frosty the Snowman by Bing Crosby. I was a little bit nervous for her. When they started dance again in August they had a different teacher and were learning a different dance. Then about 5 weeks ago they changed teachers and she changed the dance. So they had a total of 4 dance classes to learn a whole new dance to perform. But they all pulled it off. They did great!! It was a cute dance, and I am very proud of McKenzie for working hard and learning the dance so fast.



We had fun waiting for McKenzie to perform. Of course she was he very last dance from her group.



These are pictures of the kids favorite trees that they saw at the festival. Abby favorite was, of course, the Dora tree. McKenzie liked the Grinch who stole Christmas tree, and Cameron really liked all of the Utes trees.