Tanner Makes His First Movie

Last weekend Tanner ventured into the world of film production. He and a friend decided to enter a film festival through their school a couple of weeks ago. The rules of the festival were, 1) no more than 24 hours to make the film 2) use a bell for a prop 3) have the "All people want is someone to listen" somewhere in the film. #2 and #3 were provided on Friday afternoon. Of course being kids, communication was not crisp and they did not get together until 4 hours before the film was due on Saturday night. Fortunately, Tanner's friend Zach had already worked out a good script and when Tanner arrived at his house they only had to make minor adjustments. Filming started around 2:30 and just after 4:30 they had finished editing the film on the computer and were ready for production. At the time I thought it was a pretty good effort for their first try and short time constraints, and I was right. They ended up getting 2nd place in their category (grades 5-6) and even won 200 RMB for their efforts. Tanner's Uncle Dave would be proud!

You can see the entire 5 minute movie at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxvEcfAgM5I

Daddy/Daughter Dance

Ron & Amanda had a Daddy/Daughter Dance last weekend! This event was put together by the Girl Scouts troop she belongs to here in Shanghai. All Amanda kept talking about was this dance! The night before the dance she asked Ron, "Daddy, are you going to be able to sleep tonight? I am so excited." She had a count down going for several weeks - let's just say we were all very excited when the day finally arrived so the count down would stop! Amanda got her hair done for the big event and looked beautiful.

Daddy's little girl

They danced a few dances together but Amanda, being the social butterfly that she is, found just as much fun dancing with her friends. The 'special' song they danced to was by Steven Curtis Chapman - Cinderella.....good thing I wasn't there as I would have been bawling. Hope you enjoyed the photos!!!