Visitors!

I am the worst at blogging! haha. I don't know how other moms find the time to do it, but I definitely need to step it up!

Last Saturday I woke up to a surprise....Mary's family was on my doorstep! I had no idea they were coming or that they would be staying with us. Good thing I love the Wolfe family! It was fun to have them around. We don't have any furniture in our apartment, so there was plenty of room to lay out sleeping bags and set up camping chairs.

Lance's mom and Yellow Grandma also arrived on Saturday (an arrival I was expecting). We spent time at the San Diego Zoo, and of course, at Sea World.

Jade loved Yellow's walker

at the zoo

Hope and Roilan's
handbalancing/contortion act

with the performers
(they are from Utah too!)

sleeping koala....my favorite!

baby giraffe!

playing with dirt

Cirque de la Mer

Jade wasn't too sure about Austin,
but she's warmed up to him since then!

Stitches!

For the first time in his life....Lance got stitches.
Is anyone else surprised that this is a first for him? ;)

I happened to pick a great day to watch rehearsals!

I was watching Lance as the cast ran through the tramp wall act. I knew something was off when Lance stopped dancing/jumping and stood on top of the tramp wall wiping at his head. Then he climbed down off the structure and disappeared. That isn't like Lance to just quit in the middle of something important!

There was a slight bit of confusion as everyone was trying to figure out where Lance had disappeared to and what had happened. A boat was sent out to the structure to retrieve Lance. It turned out Lance had hit his head on a new prop that was placed on the wall.

Because I was there, I got to go in the "employee only" section of Sea World (woo hoo!) to check on him. (It wasn't as exciting to go "behind the scenes" as I had anticipated it to be....but at least my curiosity was satisfied.)

Anyway! Lance had a big gash on his forehead. We took him to the doctor and he got 12 stitches.

Harry Potter?

The best part of the day was that we all got a free dinner! The cast of Cirque de la Mer was treated to dinner by the head honcho of World Entertainment at Souplantion...and because I happened to be around that day, I got free food too! :)

Tyce and Mary on trapeze.
Lance and the other acrobats on the wall. 

Lance going off the wall while Tyce and Mary practice
their routine.

bandaged up

Family Update

A little family update:


Sam played violin in the Westminster College Chamber Orchestra.

Orchestra Concert

Sam got a balloon bouquet!

 We've enjoyed spending time outside.

at the park

family BBQ
w/ great grandma yellow

chillin in a hammock

Jade loves playing with balls

We moved to San Diego for Lance's new job!

we stopped by the Las Vegas Temple

We visited the San Diego Temple.

We found a really cool bridge in the middle of a neighborhood.

We ate a burrito that weighed almost the same as Jade. 

The grandparents dropped us off at Sea World.
We are going to miss them!

hanging out at daddy's work

Jade and daddy at Sea World

Cirque de la Mer Rehearsal

Cirque de la Mer Auditions

On the 15th of January we drove to Las Vegas for the Cirque de la Mer auditions.

What is Cirque de la Mer? It is a summer show that Sea World does that has Chinese pole, trampoline wall, aerialists, clowns, etc, etc.

So anyways, we drove down and spent the night with my grandparents. On Wednesday morning we showed up to Gym Cats in Henderson, where the auditions would take place. This would be the last of 4 auditions around the U.S. for this show.

Jade and I got to watch the auditions, which was really entertaining. First, the acrobats demonstrated their strength and flexibility by doing things like the splits, pushups, pull ups, rope climb, etc. They also had to do some tumbling across the floor. Then there were some cuts and everyone left had to do some tricks on a trampoline and then learn a dance. (I think maybe 20 acrobats started and they cut it down to maybe 10?....not sure.) These last two items in the audition were the BEST EVER to watch. hahaha. Some people flew off the trampoline-which was awesome and watching everyone dance was just fantastic. :) Then everyone was interviewed and were told they'd hear back at the end of the month.

After the auditions, we visited some friends of ours that we used to know when we lived in China. I used to baby sit their little girl while her parents performed in the circus. The dad is now performing flying trapeze in Zarkana at the Aria. (go check it out!) We weren't able to see the show on this trip, but we definitely will be seeing it next time we are in Vegas. It was so fun to visit with their family and to show off Jade. :)

We drove home on Thursday and really weren't expecting to hear back from the audition people very soon. However, on Friday Lance got a call and he was offered the job!! Yay!

Now comes the tricky part....finding housing! And getting rid of all our crap. ugh.

I expect everyone to come visit us and see the show this summer! (Tyce and Mary are in the show too!)

the acrobats' audition

Lance and Jade at the audition

tumbling

the 5 aerialists that auditioned doing their pushup exercises
the 3 ladies in the middle are from Utah!

Cirque de la Mer Tramp Wall Act

Here is the video for the trampoline wall act in Cirque de la Mer at Sea World. Mary is one of the dancers in red, and Tyce is one of those dudes in blue.

San Diego

We took Jade on her first ever road trip/vacation last week! We drove to San Diego so we could visit Tyce and Mary. They have been living in California and performing in Cirque de la Mer at Sea World, so they hadn't met Jade yet!

I was so nervous about taking Jade on such a long drive, but she was awesome! She mostly just slept and only got fussy when she was hungry (I get pretty fussy when I'm hungry too). We spent the first night outside of Vegas in a place called Whiskey Pete's.....oh boy was it whiskey!! .....holes in the walls and ceiling, carpet that must have been put in by Pete himself eons ago...


San Diego was really nice. The weather felt fantastic! We enjoyed swimming, exploring Old Town, going to the Mormon Battalion visitors center, watching the Olympics, and attending shows in Sea World.

road trip time

in the car

at the pool

Jade's first dip in the pool

Jade and Grandma

taking a snooze

Cirque de la Mer

Mary (in red) and Tyce (2nd dude)

Tyce on Chinese Pole

Tyce and Mary on Chinese Pole

Tyce

Mary

trampoline act

Lance, Tyce, Mary and Austin

I think it's funny how their hair kind of sticks up the same

killing time in the hotel

Lance, me, Austin, Mary, Tyce