Megan's voice recital

Hopefully this works.  This is a video from Megan's recent voice recital on June 2.  There are three songs.  The first is an Italian Aria, the second is a song Rizzo sings from "Grease" and the last is a song from the movie "A Beautiful Mind" called "All love can be." The last one is my favorite.  They are all different and show a range of her abilities.  I hope you enjoy it!

Our FIRST trip to Utah this summer

The day school got out Mom, Amber, Megan and David took a drive to Utah. It took 20 hours and 3 days to get there. Here is our last rest stop before our destination.

We spent our first evening visiting with Maria's sister Andie and brother Bryce's families.

Aww cousins!

Monday was the first day of Especially for Youth. Amber and Megan went with their cousins and good friends. Pictured below are: Truett, Michael, Amber, Megan, Nicole, Marinda, Zachary and Loren. To see more EFY pictures, you will have to check out Amber and Megan's facebook pages.

After the kids got dropped off at EFY Maria took David and cousins to the Taylorsville community pool.

Tuesday, after visiting a couple temples (here is the Oquirrh Mountain temple) David and Maria drove to West Bountiful to visit Aunt Lori and more cousins.

Drew, David, Matt, Mandy, Tyler

Kids rule at Texas Roadhouse, especially when you get a free t-shirt for putting a handprint on a paper for a parade float. The food was awesome, too.

Before the buzz cut (David decided he wanted to have a haircut just like his cousins and Uncle Brad was willing)

During the buzz cut

After the buzz cut (are they cousins or what?!)

Wednesday we toured the Tracy Aviary in SLC and cousin William and David tried to sneak up on a peacock

We also spent an afternoon at the Discovery Gateway children's museum. Here are Jordan, Aunt Andie, Aunt Laura and Kaylee making music.

Kaylee enjoyed getting rid of, I mean, burying a couple cousins!

Friday we toured the Conference Center and Temple square.

Here are Joseph, William, David and Hyrum with the First Presidency

David used his water bending skills on the fountain

It was a great week. We will get to do it again in July!

Stake dance time

This is a picture of the good looking bunch of girls that we took to the stake dance over the weekend. Three nonmember friends came. Now if we could only convince the boys to go!

New Driver on the Road!!!!

Megan got her permit last week and wants to practice all the time. The DMV actually sent a tester to the school and Megan passed it in her drivers ed class so all she had to do was go to the DMV and have her eyes checked and get her picture taken. She did it that afternoon! She was a little uneasy and nervous at first, but is getting the hang of driving. Here is a picture of Kelly in the passenger seat, risking his life? Nah.

Megan and Marissa in Les Miserables

Here are some photos of Megan and Marissa in the high school production of "Les Miserables" from May 6-9. It was very busy, but the girls had a great experience and the production was amazing!

Marissa as a street urchin and Megan as a beggar

Some of Megan's friends came to see the show!

Megan and Steven celebrate birthdays

Megan celebrated her 15th birthday on the 15th. Amber decorated a very colorful cake for her.

Megan was excited about getting the newest Fablehaven book.

Megan's YW leaders gave her a nifty light up ring and Dad gave her some gorgeous lavender roses.

Steven is now an official teenager. He turned 13 on the 18th. he was thrilled with his new mp3 player and team apparel.

We celebrated at Red Robin to get their free sundaes and to get sung to.

We now have 3 teenagers! How fast time has flown!

March update

I know it has been a while, so here is an update of what has been happening in Minnesota with the Stotts family.



Steven tried a new sport, swimming. He has never been on a swim team before. He enjoyed it and really improved and learned some new things.

Amber was honored as one of the top art students in the district. Her piece, Treasure Map, is now on display at the local community college. Way to go Amber!

Megan had another symphony concert. They played the theme from the 3rd "Pirates of the Carribbean" movie, and even sang a little.

Mom and David enjoyed a fun day at the zoo seeing the baby farm animals.

Steven and his fellow deacons Matt and Brigham made homemade pizza dinners for a service project.