T's Tumbling

T started a tumbling class today. She is using a local business, Centro Unico to hold the class. If anyone is interested it is every Wednesday from 3 to 6. T's Tumbling in Rose Park is really cost friendly, so if you live close by and you have children who would like to learn basic gymnastics, it would definitely be worth your time to try it out.

Centro Unico
910 West 1000 North
Salt Lake City, Utah

The Schubert Singers

My grandmother sings in a choir and they have a concert this Saturday. The Schubert Singers are singing May 17th @ 7 pm, @ The Waterford School 1480 East 9400 South enter from 1700 east.

They are really good and enjoyable. Bring the kids and enjoy. It is free admission, they do accept donations but it's not required.

Rose Park Festival

I'm a few weeks late on this. April 26th we held the fourth annual Rose Park Community Festival. It was a great success with an estimated 3,000 people moving in and out. The weather was sunny but a little too windy with a bit of a chill but still enjoyable. Entertainment was good, the belly dancers looked a little cold and the last singer was more then out of key.

The food this year wasn't as good as last year, only two choices this year three less from last, some incredible Thai food that was there last year and hopefully in the years to come along with hot dogs and hamburgers from Diamond Lils.

There was cotton candy and snow cones provided by the Southern Baptist. Around 20 or so non-profits providing information material. A couple of people selling stuff and a couple companies trying to find employees. T and Jen didn't sell any tutus but Marcee did sell a few hair barrettes.

Plenty of fun for the kids with crafts and games and a dunking booth. City Councilman Luke Garrett volunteered to be dunked and was more then once. The car show was a little less than steller with two hot rods but the motorcycle patrol showed off their sweet rides.

I was too busy with other things to take pictures but there are plenty on the Rose Park Festival website.

Cankle

So for those of you who don't know I sprained my ankle pretty bad about two months ago. I did it while playing basketball. The other team had a fast break and I ran down to try and block the guy, instead I took him out along with my ankle. When I planted my foot to jump something made a loud crack and then I fell to the floor. I thought for sure that it was broke, felt like it was broke, sounded like it broke. Spent the next couple of days laying in bed before I made it to the docs. The doc took some X rays, said it wasn't broke just a bad sprain and sent me to the physical therapist. The physical therapist took a look at it, said it wasn't broke iced it and told me to come back twice a week. I think I managed once a week for a while, mainly cause it felt really good when they massaged it. The PT did tell me that it was a really bad high ankle sprain and compared it to Dirk Nowitzki spraining his ankle. That made me feel pretty cool about myself, until he told me that Nowitzki was back playing on it ten days later. Yeah, I'm a wuss!

It is feeling better now. I can walk without a limp and can even run a bit. It's still a little swollen and gives me problems. Maybe if I would do the ice/hot treatment more often I could get the swelling to go but really who has time for that? I don't even have time to post this but I needed a break from my last paper which should be done tonight or soon after.

Here are some pics of my foot. One is a couple days after the other one was last week. Not very good pics but they work.



Update:
Just wanted to add a note here about my physical therapist. Hand & Orthopedic Rehabilitation Specialist at 702 East South Temple. Whats sad is I don't even know my therapist last name. His name his Tyler and his assistants that helped me, Molly and Abby. They all did an excellent job and were very nice, friendly and helpful. I would recommend them to anyone needing a foot, ankle or leg physical therapist. If for some crazy reason any of them read this blog, thanks.

Rose Park Festival

The fourth annual Rose Park Community Festival is on April 26th, the last Saturday in April from 1 to 6. Everyone is welcomed to attend whether or not you live in Rose Park. We have open tables if you would like to sell something at the festival. Last year we had a couple thousand people walk through. This will be the fourth festival and we believe it will be the best, we're getting a better understanding of what is needed to attract people to the festival and get them to stay for a while.

There will be food for sale and entertainment. We have arts and crafts for the kids and a dunking booth. We thought about dunking our City Councilman but he is about four feet taller then the tank of water. We might have a car show and some dutch oven samples. There will be a lot of information on non-profits and hopefully some merchandise for sale.

Here is the Rose Park Festival website for more information.

Rose Park News is a blog with some good information on whats going on in Rose Park.

Fisher Mansion

The city bought the Fisher Mansion last year in hopes to use some of the property to expand the Jordan River Parkway. Mayor Becker held an open house last week to give residents an opportunity to voice what they would like done with the property. We took advantage of this opportunity and visited the house and left our two cents.


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After walking through the house, running into neighbors and shaking hands with the Mayor we left our comments. Renovate the house back to it's original state and use it as, a reception center, museum, and/or a public art gallery.



They should turn the old carriage/garage house into a bike rental shop/refreshment store for those on the Jordan Parkway.


Cody enjoyed walking around the house. He's too slow going up the stairs.


For more pictures click on any of the above pictures.

More info on the Fisher Mansion.

Salt Lake City website

Trib Article

Discovery Gateway

I don't know what the place is called but thats what T calls it. Anywho we spent Martin Luther King day or at least a couple hours of it there. We braved the snow and crappy roads to get there. That was probably a good thing, keept the number of people down. It was pretty fun, it would be even better if I could just sit there with my laptop or a book while the kids played. I haven't been there before, T has taken the kids a few times and they love it. If you go to a SLC library you can get a card that gets a family in for free twice a year. So definitively a place to go for free.

Being a cop!


Grocery shopping


Checking out


Filling up


The tubes suck the balls up and when you open hatch the air comes out and cody made the same face everytime. Like he wasn't expecting the air. The loved it!




The house




A fun family day!!