Monday, December 14, 2009

"Are you of Russian descent?"

After Megan's first ballet recital on Saturday, some anonymous, glamorous woman in a fur coat strode up to Kimmie and said, "Is that your daughter? She's marvelous. She was the star of the whole production. She's gorgeous. Are you of Russian descent?"

Kim wasn't really sure how to respond to this barrage -- "Uh, I'm Scottish and Swedish, I guess."

"Oh, it must be the Swedish then. She's perfect. And look, you even have her hair done in the traditional style."

Yeah, that's exactly what we were going for.















Check out her "perfect" dancing here:



She certainly is beautiful, if not exactly on her way to the Bolshoi Ballet.

By the way, Dan happened to be out here for some work training, and he was lucky enough to get to join us for Meg's performance. For a few days before he came, Megan made sure to thank in her prayers for the fact that Uncle Dan was going to fly out just to see her dance.

He watched with rapt attention.

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Sunday, December 06, 2009

We're thankful

I got home from Zambia around 6:30 pm on the day before Thanksgiving, and Cory and Alisha pulled up about an hour later. It was a blast.