"Food Court"

On the same day that Julee was playing basketball at the church, Alexis was across town participating in the 2010 Odyssey of the Mind competition with her school team.  This is a great program that Alexis has been fortunate to participate in for 2 years now.  This year the "problem" was called Food Court.  The team had to create an 8 minute skit with an accused and an accuser who would be judged if a certain type of food would be helpful or harmful to our bodies.  All of the characters had to be food or related to food.  The true challenge is that the kids have to come up with the ideas, the skit, the plan, the props, and the costumes with very little or no help from any adults.  It is quite impressive what they come up with.  Alexis' team actually did a skit of a courtroom setting in which the tomato (Alexis) accused the pepperoni of being unhealthy.  All the other pizza toppings were the jury.  The judge ultimately determined that pepperoni was not unhealthy and the tomato lost.  Thankfully, the tomato and the pepperoni were able to get past their differences and remain friends.  The team gave a great performance and then spent the afternoon watching other teams perform while waiting to perform their spontaneous problem.

The best looking tomato we've ever seen

Alexis peeking through her coach and team

A grand performance

The team takes their bow

Isn't she so cute?

 We were so glad that the parents are not allowed to watch the spontaneous performance since we needed to get to the church to watch Julee play basketball.  On the way from Odyssey of the Mind to basketball, we stopped so Rick could help a sister in our ward with her computer.  When basketball was over it was back to the school to pick up Alexis.  We think life was easier when they were little and not running in all directions.  But we have to admit, we wouldn't change this for the world!  We are so proud of our great girls and all their accomplishments!