We are human. Skylar's dancer.

So the title of this post refers to the Killers song, Human, aka Skylar's song. I've heard people say that song doesn't make any sense but it makes total sense. It is about Skylar. She is dancer. Everyone in the family sings this song to Skylar on a regular basis because it totally fits. That girl is always dancing. Have you seen her walk? She's always on her tip-toes. She is dancer.
So when your dancer girl wakes up with a fever off 99.6 on the day of a dance performance you expect her to want to crawl back in bed, right? Oh yeah, not Skylar. She's dancer and she's not about to miss out on a chance to perform. So back in November (I'm slow to post) her dance group was dancing at the Gingerbread Festival. She was so sick but would not give in and insisted we still go. We went. She danced. She danced beautifully! She had a smile on her face and a spring in her step and did a great job!

After her dance Skylar went back to feeling awful and pretty much huddled in the stroller all miserable while we took a quick look at all of the cool gingerbread houses. There was an amazing one of the SL temple and an awesome sand castle. There was even one done by the Scouts in our ward. The kids really did enjoy it but Skylar got increasingly more uncomfortable so we didn't stay long. By the time we got home her fever was 102, she felt awful, and I felt awful. But she had danced and she was happy.

There was still another chance for a dance when she was not sick. Every year Skylar's group performs at the Festival of Trees. It's become a fun family tradition since we've now been going 5 years. This year her performance was last Friday night at 9 pm. What?!? So, so late. Anyway, we figured we'd make a night of it and use the gift card Ben's work gave us for Jordan Commons and take the kids to the Mayan for the first time. We hadn't been since before we had kids and the food was still way over-priced and not too great, but the atmosphere is fun. The kids loved it! The divers jumping off the waterfall cliffs were so fun for them to watch. They've got some pretty crazy divers there. Our favorite was this girl who came and saw us later. She was totally a monkey and climbed everything. She stayed in character too and spoke some weird language filled with ooos and grunts. Nick, our monkey, was totally enthralled with the whole experience. He declared it "the awesomest awesome of all awesome nights!"

After the Mayan, we made it over to the Festival of the Trees. It was really cool, as usual, and super crowded, as usual. The coolest tree was the Star Wars one which was actually more like 5 trees. It had a big display with a bunch of vintage stuff mixed in with new stuff. Our kids were in awe. Little do they know that their daddy has a lot of that stuff packed away in boxes. Someday Ben will have his Star Wars tree.
Skylar finally got to do her dance and she did a wonderful job, of course. They danced to Winter Song by Sara Bareilles. It is such a beautiful song and they did an amazing job. I love Skylar's dance group and all of the opportunities she gets to perform. I asked her if she ever gets nervous before she goes on stage and she looked at me like I was crazy and said she never does. Well, of course not, she is dancer.