SXSW

One of the things Austin is famous for is South by Southwest (SXSW). It's a huge conference/festival of music, movies, and technology. Passes are expensive but if you research things out, you can take part in a lot of free things they offer, like a free show at Whole Foods' rooftop with Pentatonix, the best acapella group IMHO. Not only did we enjoy hearing them sing (the sound on the video I took didn't turn out very well because I was too close to the speakers), we got our photo taken with them too!

Aidan's first music video

Saturdays of late

This is what my house sounds like these past few Saturdays.

June Summary

It's been a busy month so here's a quick recap...

Went to NYC for another business trip and they had all these lawn chairs in the middle of the street in Times Square. Apparently one of the reasons is to manage traffic by training drivers to re-route.

Annual Spaghetti Dinner and Pie (and dessert) auction...Connor made a Salt Lake Temple rice krispie square.

Aidan bid and won a pie with his own $10.

Sheldon was fed up with our old kitchen appliances...

We went to the Medieval Festival at Upper Canada Village.

Junior School Closing assembly. Connor received subject awards in math (2nd highest mark in his class), drama, and art. He's left-brained and right-brained...a well-rounded boy.

Celebrated Barb Booth's birthday. Can you guess what restaurant?

Organized the Stake Softball Tournament.

Aidan's new ride.

Actually, it was a limo we saw during our Mommy and Aidan day.

Aidan did really well on his Gr. 5 report card. Almost straight A's...just a few B's sprinkled in there.

And finally, our choir practiced and performed the musical presentation "From Cumorah's Hill". It was a lot of fun and the Stake President wants us to do an encore performance in the fall.