Time to play CATCH UP!!!!

 I am going to do a bit of catch up here !!! I haven't been as good as I thought about keeping this up! shame on me!!!  1 ended on January 13th. And I didn't end on a very good note. I was pretty upset. I guess the mommy lion comes out every once in a while! But things are going very well! The end of January we moved, unfortunatly not by our own choice but the economy is so bad. It was hard to leave our home that we were in for almost 8 years. But Heavenly Father has His hand in all things and we were led by a good friend of mine to the home we are in now! These pics are the vines that hang over and around our garage and front door. The house is everything I would want in a home! Another friend of mine walked through it with me and she loved it too! The kids were very unsure about moving but we didn't move far and its actually only1 mile from our old home. We are still by WVHS, in walking distance1 YAY!!!

Since we have moved Shavaun has moved back to Cali and Hannah and Shavaun both celebrated their birthdays together at Knotts Berry Farm. They each took a good friend of theirs and they had a BLAST!

Hannah 16 & Shavaun 20

They had to postpone this trip because of all the storms that were hitting California. It was still pretty cold when they went but they had fun!!!!

Cameron, Shavaun, Andrew, and Hannah

Next big event inthe Powell house hold was Justin and Hannah trying out and making the school play of "The King and I". Oh my goodness. This was soooo good for a High school production! Justin was Sir edward Ramsey. He was all dressed up and had a monucle and everything. He had a fairly large speaking part and he danced with "Anna" the lead. It was a ballroom dance. I was a proud mommy!!! Hannah was in the Uncle Tom's Cabin Ballet in the show. She played Angel George. Her make up was so amazing! I didn't even recognize her! There was about 10 performances. Ms. baily the director is pretty hard but she does a FABULOUS job!  Hannah was practicing and she ended up in the newspaper about the performance! It is framed on our WALL OF FAME upstairs next to Justin being in the Nutcracker this year in the paper!

Rylee's Lyrical Solo, Black Bird!!!!

While these things have been going on Rylee has been practicing and rehearsing for competitions for the dance team this year! She is doing a solo, first time, and is in five other numbers. Lyrical, Ballet, Jazz, Hip Hop and Tap. She had one competition in february here in Hemet .Her solo recieved 4th place. She was sad but we were all so proud. it is hard to get up and perform for others and judges!!! Her solo is Black Bird. It is so beautiful!  This last weeken she had another competition and it was in Long Beach. We were there for 2 days. Her solo was Friday evening and her group numbers were on Saturday.Again, she did amazing as well  as the entire team! Rylee's solo recieved a GOLD, Ballet: GOLD, Jazz:HIGH GOLD and first in the catagory, Hip Hop: GOLD, Lyrical: GOLD and Tap: Gold!!! We have two more competitions. One in Anaheim and the other is Nationals in Vegas!!!! Fun year and great experiences!!!!

As for Tom and I, well, we are getting settled in and even though there have benn a lot of ups and downs, we are grateful for the gospel in our lives and just holding on to that!!! we love watching the kids grow and experience so many new things! So excited for whatever is in store for them!!!!