On The Road Again.....

Isak loves to read. Everytime we get home from being out and about, he picks up his books. Last week when Steve and Isak went to Manhattan, Steve said that he just held his book the entire trip. This week when we were running errands, he looked at his book the entire time. It was really cute and I happened to get a picture. Have a wonderful day!

Whew....What a Week!

Boy it has been a busy week. Steve enjoyed some downtime on a day golf trip this week and Marsha Fay Knight came down from the University of Wyoming to do a ballet workshop with my students. She set two small pieces which are going to be a lot of fun to perform.

Last weekend, some of my rhythm company students did a fundraiser for our Disney World Trip. We have a vineyard right outside of town and they offer a fundraising program where your group can come and pick grapes for a set amount of time to earn money. We had 40 people who workd 4 long hours and cleared out almost 5 rows of grapes. It was a long four hours, but I found it to be a lot of fun. I can check owning a vineyard off of my list of accomplishements in life as I don't think I could do that everyday. It was a facsinating experience though going through the process of actually harvesting/picking an actual item, watching it go through the presser and knowing that next Christmas, the grapes we picked will be sold as wine. We had a wonderful lunch afterward provided by the vineyard. It was a great time for the students to get to know one another better and good for them to work for their trips.

Marsha Fay Knight was here from the University of Wyoming to do a workshop for my students. It was so wonderful to have her here. I feel reenergized with ballet. I feel like my brain has been put back on track as far as the direction I need to go with some of my students. Owning a business, trying to teach all the classes, and putting it all together sometimes clouds my mind and I lose focus on foundation of what we are doing. She is just such an amazing teacher to begin with and was so instrumental in my training. Hopefully we can make her visit an annual or bi-annual event. Next time, she'll have to stay longer than 2 days!




While Marsha was here, we hit an antique shop and I found this great little toy horse for Isak. He loves it. If you say, Isak where's your horsey, he'll run right over to it. He can get off of it but can't quite get his leg over the top yet. He can almost say horsey as well which is pretty cute. New toys always make the day exciting :)

Thought of the Day

With football season in full swing....I thought this might be a nice inspiring start to the day.

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Isak Gram First Edition!

Hi Everyone,

I thought it would be a lot easier to post on here rather than sending out mass e-mails. This way you can check it at your own convienence.

This fall has been going by pretty quickly already. Isak is growing faster than I can keep up. He loves to run around the house and to sit and read. It is so fascinating for me to just sit and watch him. He loves to sit and read for minutes on end and loves Steve and I to read to him. You can see from the picture below that the books get spread all around the house.

Isak has been developing quite the personality this fall. He loves to say hi to everyone and laughs quite a bit during the day which is such a wonderful sound. His love of running developed quite the knot on his forehead when he toppled into the cement in our driveway. He loves to watch his feet underneath him and gets a little top heavy at times. It probably didn't help that I hadn't cut his hair because it was so soft and I didn't have the heart to cut the curls off. You can see how long it was below. Note the key word was...... Steve took the initiative one night and gave him a nice trim while I was at the studio. He did a pretty good job as you can see in the picture right next to it.

Steve had to work the state fair this month and so Isak and I took a trip down on the first day to visit. We had a great time. Isak really enjoyed eating the grain sorghum and visiting all of the animals. It was a lot of fun to travel and do something fun as a family. Isak did great both there and back. He napped the entire time.

We are enjoying the last warm days of fall as the colder weather is setting in sooner this year. I'll close today with some more fun pictures of Isak and Steve. We hope this all finds you doing well and enjoying the fall weather!