DECA

Yikes - I just realized I had published this post on our ward's preparedness blog instead of our family blog.  We'll see if anyone in the ward notices!!  One of the hazards of too many blogs!!


This year Tessa has gotten involved with DECA.  She has been taking a Fashion Merchandising class and was encouraged to get involved by her teacher.

We didn't even know what DECA stood for.  Come to find out DECA stands for Delta Epsilon Chi which is Latin and we have no idea what that means.

DECA is an organization for high school and college students studying marketing, management and entrepreneurship in business, finance, hospitality and marketing sales and service.

They recently held their State Conference here in Portland and Tessa put together a presentation to present.

Her presentation was a fund raising event to be put on by Anthropologie ( a women's retail store) to raise money for Make a Wish Foundation.  She had to put a whole business plan/ presentation together including a display board.

Her board turned out lovely with a little help from mom, Creative Memories Storybook Creator and our Cricut Machine!

She did great at the competition and came in 5th in the whole state! 

Having never participated in anything like this before she didn't really know what to expect and she did great!

Here's the medal she received!

The conference was held at Jantzen Beach and went for three days.  She stayed overnight except we went and picked her up each day for play rehearsal and then drove her back.

She is looking forward to competing again next year!

Faculty Choreography Show

My main reason for going to Utah last weekend was to see Cali's dance performance.  She performed in the Faculty Choreography Show.

Each of the modern dance faculty choreograph a number and then audition dancers for their show.  Cali was chosen to be in her teacher's number.

We got to meet her teacher and she is a teeny, tiny cutie!
This was the first time I had seen Cali in a dance performance.  We have seen her many times on stage acting, singing and dancing but never just dancing.

Here's the group from the number Cali was in.

Lots of fun new friends.

They performed Friday night and Saturday night..  Friday night Clark went with me as well as Wynn and the girls.  Logan came over at the end of the show so he could go to dessert with us.

Cali's roommate Brittney was also there.

Saturday night Logan went with me to the show (Clark went to a BYU Lacrosse game and one evening of modern dance was all Clark could handle!!)  The three of us, Logan, Cali and myself, snuck out at intermission on Saturday night so we could go over and watch the MDT Showcase which was fun.  It was fun to see several of the YA's that Logan had performed with!

Cali did a wonderful job and it was so fun to see her up on stage again!!

Love you Cali Girl!!!

Meet Miss Jacky

Now that you met Miss Addi you need to meet her just as cute older sister Jacky, another one of my darling great nieces.

Jacky was a little more cooperative and quite enjoyed having her picture taken.

And the cute sisters together

And then throw in a cute cousin Cali....

And three pretty girls together!!