Spring 2011 – Megan
Spring has been long in coming, but we had some time to take some pictures outside.
Just about ready for a high five.
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Spring 2011 – Autumn
Spring is here! Well, sort of.
It’s been a wild ride trying to get spring to come.
There’s been enough good weather to get some yard work done and take a few pictures outside.
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Culture Evening
We enjoyed a ward culture evening with various artistic numbers ranging from dance, piano performance, vocal, recitation (which is different from resuscitation), and for the “extremely well cultured,” a ukulele number.
The number was a medely of 3 songs taking us through the roaring 1920′s with Blue Skies.
People sang this song in the 20′s because it was believed that the good times (blue skies) would never end.
Well, they did end with the crash of 1929, and the Great Depression ensued with 24% national unemployment.
They sang Brother can you Spare a Dime.
A very sad song, very sad.
But the sad times didn’t last forever…in fact there’s something that got people through the bad times: faith and love.
And perhaps a few Monkeys put it best in their song: I’m a Believer 
That was the medley of song on the ukulele.
(The uke was made pre-1930 and the hat was Great Grandpa’s).
Read MoreLittle Radio Stars
We set up our Blue Yeti Microphone and had a fun day a while back recording the kids. They wanted to sing some songs and tell stories.
I think we have a few radio stars. Below are the recordings we made:
Megan’s Recordings:
Megan Singing Row, Row, Row Your Boat
[audio:http://www.wheatleyfamily.net/audio/2011-03-27-Row-Your-Boat-Megan.mp3|titles=Row Your Boat, Megan]
Megan Singing the song, but with a little editing, we’ve put it into a round:
[audio:http://www.wheatleyfamily.net/audio/2011-03-27-Row-Your-Boat-Round-Megan.mp3|titles=Row Your Boat Round, Megan]
Megan took a moment to record a little from the beginning of the Rapunzel story.
[audio:http://www.wheatleyfamily.net/audio/2011-03-27-Rapunzel-Megan.mp3|titles=Rapuzel Story Retelling]
Megan wanted to tell the story of the Three Little Kittens from the movie Despicable Me. She tells the story as Mr. Gru with his deep voice read the story to the little kids in the movie:
[audio:http://www.wheatleyfamily.net/audio/2011-03-27-Three-Little-Kittens-Megan.mp3|titles=Three Little Kittens]
Now some stories and songs from Autumn:
Autumn arranged the song below by herself:
[audio:http://www.wheatleyfamily.net/audio/2011-03-27-Hot-Cross-Buns-Peter-Peter-Pumpkin-Eater-Retelling-Autumn.mp3|titles=Songs by Autumn]
Autumn sang Row Your Boat:
[audio:http://www.wheatleyfamily.net/audio/2011-03-27-Row-Your-Boat-Autumn.mp3|titles=Row Your Boat, Autumn]
Autumn wanted to tell the Story of Star Wars:
[audio:http://www.wheatleyfamily.net/audio/2011-03-27-Star-Wars-Retelling-Autumn.mp3|titles=Star Wars Retelling, Autumn]
Megan and Autumn sang Pearly Shells:
[audio:http://www.wheatleyfamily.net/audio/2011-03-27-pearly-shells-Autumn-and-Megan.mp3|titles=Pearly Shells, Autumn and Megan]
The girls had a lot of fun recording the songs. They had even more fun listening to them over and over again.
Read MoreMegan’s Birthday 2011
Megan had a fun birthday this week. We went to the city library downtown and explored all sorts of places there.
Megan visited the library with her school class and wanted to bring the whole family along on her birthday.
Megan had fun opening presents in the morning…perhaps too much fun…she decided to save two presents to open a little later after breakfast.
We enjoyed the library, and the fun things to do there.
Here’s Autumn at a wishing well (sort of).
Megan needed a little help with that last candle, but she got it eventually.
Read MoreAutumn’s Birthday 2010
Well, we’re a little late posting with a lot going on, but here are some pictures from Autumn’s Birthday.
We went to the children’s museum. Autumn and Savannah got to play news anchors.
The kids also enjoyed the grocery store.
They really enjoyed slinging bales of hay in the western section.
Autumn really enjoyed delivering the mail throughout the place.
The girls got to sit inside a real helicopter.
Autumn Loved the Tinkerbell and movie.
Of course she had a Tinkerbell cake.
