McAlister Matters

Sarah and I are still taking our guitar lessons. We are half way through the course. Obviously we have a long ways to master the guitar but it is getting funner and the music is starting to sound better. We did have a recital #8 but it wasn't too memorable. Here is the one from last night with the girls. Saturday was a cloudy and cool day. We pulled out most of our garden in the morning and then went for a short hike with the kids on the Farmington Creek trail and had a picnic at the Farmington pond. The girls enjoyed seeing the ducks and geese.

Summer is over and we've been busy as usual. I'm going to do a quick recap of what's been going on. Kahlan and Juniper had lots of fun with their cousins going to the movies each week together. They also swam often in the backyard. We gardened like mad people and made a splendithora of wonderful things including: peatopia, cherry pie, peach pie, gallons of tomato sauce, fresh salsa, jalapeno salsa, peach salsa, frozen corn, canned pears, and zucchini every way you can imagine. On July 14th, we went to the pioneer village at the 'This is the place' monument park with Grandpa Bob and Grandma Ingrid. Kahlan got to ride a pony and pet a pig. On July 15th Kahlan went to a friend's birthday party, met Moana and learned how to hula. On Kahlan's 4th birthday we waited 3 hours to watch the Bountiful Pioneer Day fireworks with Mike and Alicia. The fireworks were great but we stayed up way too late with the girls. The next day w...

Happy 4th of July everyone! We had a fun time watching the Centerville parade this morning (just down the street). Kahlan got lots of candy and Juniper was quite chill through it all. The girls played in the backyard pool later and we harvested some peas from our garden. We're going to make some Peatopia later this week. Last night we had our family recital and we performed Jamaica Farewell. Juniper helped out a little ;)

We had a birthday party for Juniper's first birthday on Saturday. The kids got to play outside with a slip-n-slide and pool. Juniper had a good time. She's so busy now walking all around the house. She's a sweet little toddler and we love her!

We've been practicing barre chords for the last month so here is our latest recital. We've been having fun trying out some primary songs too. In this concert we play Home on the Range, Yellow Rose of Texas and a bonus primary song for Kahlan. Enjoy! Juniper will turn 1 this week!

Juniper will be 1-YEAR-OLD this month! We've known she was close to walking. She decided it was time about a week ago. She's even more stable and on the move now with some cool new sneakers. We had a super time on our road trip to California. Yosemite was rainy for us this time so we didn't get to do as much as we wanted there. It was a fun adventure though and Kahlan and Juniper were good sports on the hike to Mirror Lake.  Seeing all the Californians was great. Congrats to my mom on her retirement from 26 years of teaching! Click for some trip pics

We performed our latest recital last Saturday. This one featured our big hits Scarborough Fair, Green Sleeves, and The Banana Boat Song. We are still having fun learning together. Kahlan is becoming a puzzle master and Juniper is a busy little explorer. Can't wait to see the California clans next week!