So I'm sitting here by the front door, laptop in hand (well, lap) waiting for all the little spooks, goblins and power rangers to take my candy... and it occurs to me... HEY! Why not update your blog? It's been a couple of days... Ahem... yeah... weeks more like. Truly... how does time pass so quickly?
Let's do a quick month-in-review: (Imagine this being said super fast...)
Shakespeare competition, general conference, Jr. Drill workshop for the girls, took the kids to a totally impromptu breakfast at Golden Corral, (moo...) Trip to California with drill team: Disney, Universal and WICKED... all GREAT! Baby sat my nephew Scott for a weekend, over-drafted my checking account, (again)! held auditions for the fall comedy, started rehearsals, celebrated 2 neices' birthdays, watched Jada dance at the Scarecrow festival, heard Kaila do a fabulous solo song at the school choir concert, supervised the drama club Halloween party, made clam-chowder for the family Halloween party, enjoyed a bonfire at said party, attended 4 faculty meetings, did 3 weeks of Primary music, taught numerous classes, did inumerable loads of laundry and played a rousing game of Bunco with my best buds! WHEW!
Busy month... October. And now it's gone. Do y'all have those moments where you suddenly realize that a month, or a year, or a childhood has passed... and you can't believe how quickly it went? I'm in one of those moments tonight, realizing that I only have one little chickie who still really wants to trick-or-treat. The older four are all gone to various parties and events with their friends. Poor Erika. I think she was as surprised as we were that suddenly for the first time in her life... no sisters to go door to door with. We had to quickly arrange for a neighborhood friend!
And at the end of the evening, one of her "best ever friends", daughter of our good friends the Carrascos, came to the door. Within minutes they had arranged a sleep-over and an all-day playtime for tomorrow! So her lonely Halloween turned out okay. :)
Sierra did THRILLER with the drill team at a school assembly this morning. It was incredible! They had some of their own choreography, but they did a bunch of the original thriller zombie moves and it was cool! Sierra had this totally intense scary face and she was staring down the audience. Awesome! I had to get a sub to take my class so I could run over and watch. Thanks to the teacher next door for giving up his prep time to watch my 2nd period!
And do I have ANY pics of my cute kids in all their costumes today? NO I do not! Someone has jacked the battery from my camera so I am picture-less... for many events... Halloween, Cali trip, dance stuff, family birthdays... and who the HECK needed a CV3R anyway? No one will fess up, so I guess I need to add that to tomorrow's grocery list. New month... new to-do list!
And more milestones to count: My baby turns 8 this month. That's the last baptism for us! My next-up baby turns 12 and leaves Primary to go into Young Women. And come January... my first baby turns 18. I know SHE'S ready for that, but the parents aren't!
It's definitely a time for deep-thoughts about the passage of time...
Friday, October 31, 2008
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
10 (ahem... two week's worth) on Tuesday, er Weds.. maybe THURSDAY!
It's been busy-busy-busy lately, so that results in poor blogging behavior!
I need to recruit Kaila or Sierra to update for me. Also, I've been meaning to create a great post with all of our fabulous Beauty & the Beast pics. Ah well... all in good time. Best not to run faster than you have strength I suppose. One of these days I'll get it done. Probably. Well... maybe.
#1- Shakespeare Competition is over and done! All children present and accounted for. (Seriously that is my biggest stress... getting them all home safe and sound. Taking 35 9th graders on an overnighter is not exactly relaxing!) Aren't they cute, though?
#2- Our kids had a great time at SUU. They did a good job in their performances, but even more importantly, they behaved themselves well! I love to see kids work hard and have good experiences. We didn't feel that we had to place high (95 schools there!) in order to feel it was success. I asked all the kids to tell me something new they had learned, and we had a really powerful team discussion about their new insights.
#3- The dance competition turned out to be the big hit this year. Our school did a Japanese style Kabuki dance to tell the story of "Midsummer Night's Dream". We placed 2nd in our division. I wish I could take credit for the great idea, but it was my assistant coach who came up with the concept and the choreographer who brought it to life. The dance judges were impressed with the melding of two different art forms from two different cultures. We're just glad they got it!
Our other dance was a Hip-Hop number featuring the 3 witches from MacBeth. Jada was one of the witches, so that was also a really fun one to watch.
#4- BROOKE'S DANCE WAS INCREDIBLE!! They were in a separate division than ours, but we were performing in the same room. I came in just after their dance started, but I could immediately tell that it was the story of "King Lear". It was really powerful, and I was not surprised at all to hear that her dance had been chosen for the showcase!! It was very well done. I had to tell everyone at least a hundred times... "That's my cousin! She choreographed that dance!"
#5- Favorite parts of the event: (besides watching all the kiddos perform of course) When Aunt Margo ran up and hugged me just as I was giving marching orders to my kids. They were all looking at us like... "Who is that?" When I told them it was my aunt, they all thought that was cool that she came to watch "us" as Shakespeare! (tee hee)
AND... the gigantic ZION sundae (48 scoops of ice cream!) that our team got to tackle after all our events on Saturday. It was a perfect relaxing way to end the work.
#6- SLEPT like a zombie on Sunday morning, but did get up in time for conference. Could you all feel the difference in President Monson? It was his familiar face and voice, but there was a definite feeling of "This is the prophet". I thought that was cool. (Although I bawled through most of his talk and had to wipe my nose with a towel!)
#7- Got to take the kids to visit Grandma and Grandpa's new zoo! They have 12 new baby animals! 6 kittens and 6 puppies. All of which are soft, furry and adoreable of course. And NO DAD, we do NOT want one to come live at our house!!!!
#8- Erika, Necia, Jada & Samantha are doing the Jr. Drill workshop with Sierra's drill team this week. They are learning the dance and will perform at the FB game on Friday. We'll have to get pics and make a cool post about it next week.
#9- Steven got our 72 hour kits all updated this week. He made a run to Emergency Essentials and came back with lots of "goodies" for the packs. Now, let's just hope they are NEVER needed!
#10- And of course I must mention... ahem... less than a week until Sierra's drill tour to Cali. (Disney & WICKED!) But who's counting???
Other honorable mentions from the week before last:
Attended a Missionary Farewell for one of the kids in our old ward. His dad was the bishop when Steve was a counselor. It was such a fun day because we got to sit and reminisce with many of our old neighbors and friends. Why is it that you don't realize how special people are to you until you don't get to spend time with them anymore??
Kaila's friend Brenden moved to Oregon this week and she's feeling the ouch of that. They're good friends and it's been kind of a tough week. She's starting to get those seperation experiences that happen as you get to the end of high school. Exciting, but kinda scary and sad at the same time! (Janae can tell us all about it, huh?)
I need to recruit Kaila or Sierra to update for me. Also, I've been meaning to create a great post with all of our fabulous Beauty & the Beast pics. Ah well... all in good time. Best not to run faster than you have strength I suppose. One of these days I'll get it done. Probably. Well... maybe.
#1- Shakespeare Competition is over and done! All children present and accounted for. (Seriously that is my biggest stress... getting them all home safe and sound. Taking 35 9th graders on an overnighter is not exactly relaxing!) Aren't they cute, though?
#2- Our kids had a great time at SUU. They did a good job in their performances, but even more importantly, they behaved themselves well! I love to see kids work hard and have good experiences. We didn't feel that we had to place high (95 schools there!) in order to feel it was success. I asked all the kids to tell me something new they had learned, and we had a really powerful team discussion about their new insights.
#3- The dance competition turned out to be the big hit this year. Our school did a Japanese style Kabuki dance to tell the story of "Midsummer Night's Dream". We placed 2nd in our division. I wish I could take credit for the great idea, but it was my assistant coach who came up with the concept and the choreographer who brought it to life. The dance judges were impressed with the melding of two different art forms from two different cultures. We're just glad they got it!
Our other dance was a Hip-Hop number featuring the 3 witches from MacBeth. Jada was one of the witches, so that was also a really fun one to watch.
#4- BROOKE'S DANCE WAS INCREDIBLE!! They were in a separate division than ours, but we were performing in the same room. I came in just after their dance started, but I could immediately tell that it was the story of "King Lear". It was really powerful, and I was not surprised at all to hear that her dance had been chosen for the showcase!! It was very well done. I had to tell everyone at least a hundred times... "That's my cousin! She choreographed that dance!"
#5- Favorite parts of the event: (besides watching all the kiddos perform of course) When Aunt Margo ran up and hugged me just as I was giving marching orders to my kids. They were all looking at us like... "Who is that?" When I told them it was my aunt, they all thought that was cool that she came to watch "us" as Shakespeare! (tee hee)
AND... the gigantic ZION sundae (48 scoops of ice cream!) that our team got to tackle after all our events on Saturday. It was a perfect relaxing way to end the work.
#6- SLEPT like a zombie on Sunday morning, but did get up in time for conference. Could you all feel the difference in President Monson? It was his familiar face and voice, but there was a definite feeling of "This is the prophet". I thought that was cool. (Although I bawled through most of his talk and had to wipe my nose with a towel!)
#7- Got to take the kids to visit Grandma and Grandpa's new zoo! They have 12 new baby animals! 6 kittens and 6 puppies. All of which are soft, furry and adoreable of course. And NO DAD, we do NOT want one to come live at our house!!!!
#8- Erika, Necia, Jada & Samantha are doing the Jr. Drill workshop with Sierra's drill team this week. They are learning the dance and will perform at the FB game on Friday. We'll have to get pics and make a cool post about it next week.
#9- Steven got our 72 hour kits all updated this week. He made a run to Emergency Essentials and came back with lots of "goodies" for the packs. Now, let's just hope they are NEVER needed!
#10- And of course I must mention... ahem... less than a week until Sierra's drill tour to Cali. (Disney & WICKED!) But who's counting???
Other honorable mentions from the week before last:
Attended a Missionary Farewell for one of the kids in our old ward. His dad was the bishop when Steve was a counselor. It was such a fun day because we got to sit and reminisce with many of our old neighbors and friends. Why is it that you don't realize how special people are to you until you don't get to spend time with them anymore??
Kaila's friend Brenden moved to Oregon this week and she's feeling the ouch of that. They're good friends and it's been kind of a tough week. She's starting to get those seperation experiences that happen as you get to the end of high school. Exciting, but kinda scary and sad at the same time! (Janae can tell us all about it, huh?)
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Ten on Tuesday
Hey... the weeks are a flyin' by!
1- Primary Program is done!!! YAY! The kids were cute and all went well.
We had a little 3 year old boy who told the Samuel the Lamanite story from memory and then sang the Book of Mormon Stories verse about it. He was the highlight of the program. His mom is my fabulous choreographer at school.
2- Wasn't very smart... I played an outside game with my D-1 kids on Friday. There was an odd number, so I partnered up with a kid... all good until I stepped back into a grate and twisted my bad foot! AAAAHHHH..... not again!! My physical therapist is going to KILL me. I think I just undid all the therapy we worked so hard on last spring. I will now start whining... the thoughts of doing another round of A-stem definitely deserves whining.
3- Steve came and worked some scene development with my Shakespeare kids. He is so good at pulling out all these character details that really bring a scene to life. Plus... they seem to take him more seriously than they do me! Why is that? I guess he's just SCARIER! (Yeah, I know... I'm pretty scary.)
4- We had Kaila's friend Brendan and Sierra's friend Phillip over for Sunday dinner. It was quite interesting to have BOYS at our table. I think we scared them away with the girls' tales of crazy childhood escapades... and a good dose of home videos! Mwaaa...haaa...haaaa!
5- Speaking of those home videos... aw... where did those adoreable little kids go?? We were watching Kaila at 3, Sierra at 2 and Jada as a baby. I remember those kids. And to think I thought they were stressful THEN! Silly me.
6- Found out that I get to go with Sierra on Drill Team tour to Cali in a few weeks... Fun! Her team are FABULOUS Dancers and they get to dance at Disney and Universal studios. Disneyland and Universal will be cool...
7- but the real news of the night was... WE ARE GOING TO "WICKED" in L.A. !!!! Oh. My. Gosh. For those of you who don't know this... I have been DYING to see the musical "Wicked" for years now. I know every word to every song and it is my favorite musical even though I've never seen the show. My sibs and some friends pooled some dough for my 40th b-day to go... I've been hanging on to that and NOW... we're going!! Okay, I admit it... I am SUCH a Drama Geek!
Ooops... sorry Sierra... I'm sure your dancing will be just as AWESOME! She may feel like dis-owning me after having to deal with my limpy walk for that many days. I think I really need to get a Jazzy! (Did I mention... WICKED??)
8- Got to hang out at Scrapbook night with a bunch of my teacher friends. I never seem to get much done, but the company is GREAT! We talk our heads off, consume way too many baked goods and float away on a river of Diet Coke! This time we all enjoyed watching the SNL skit about Sarah Palin and Hilary Clinton. HAHAHAHA!!!
9- Get to inform my new insurance (1 week old.... grrrrr) that my teenage driver got a stinkin' speeding ticket! Can't we just lock 'em up until they're 21?
10- Thought longingly all week about the rest of my family being in Disneyland THIS week.
I think the girls have asked close to a hundred times... "When are Grandma and Grandpa coming back?" "When will Natalie be home?" "How many more days until Jaden gets back?" I think they musta missed ya!
1- Primary Program is done!!! YAY! The kids were cute and all went well.
We had a little 3 year old boy who told the Samuel the Lamanite story from memory and then sang the Book of Mormon Stories verse about it. He was the highlight of the program. His mom is my fabulous choreographer at school.
2- Wasn't very smart... I played an outside game with my D-1 kids on Friday. There was an odd number, so I partnered up with a kid... all good until I stepped back into a grate and twisted my bad foot! AAAAHHHH..... not again!! My physical therapist is going to KILL me. I think I just undid all the therapy we worked so hard on last spring. I will now start whining... the thoughts of doing another round of A-stem definitely deserves whining.
3- Steve came and worked some scene development with my Shakespeare kids. He is so good at pulling out all these character details that really bring a scene to life. Plus... they seem to take him more seriously than they do me! Why is that? I guess he's just SCARIER! (Yeah, I know... I'm pretty scary.)
4- We had Kaila's friend Brendan and Sierra's friend Phillip over for Sunday dinner. It was quite interesting to have BOYS at our table. I think we scared them away with the girls' tales of crazy childhood escapades... and a good dose of home videos! Mwaaa...haaa...haaaa!
5- Speaking of those home videos... aw... where did those adoreable little kids go?? We were watching Kaila at 3, Sierra at 2 and Jada as a baby. I remember those kids. And to think I thought they were stressful THEN! Silly me.
6- Found out that I get to go with Sierra on Drill Team tour to Cali in a few weeks... Fun! Her team are FABULOUS Dancers and they get to dance at Disney and Universal studios. Disneyland and Universal will be cool...
7- but the real news of the night was... WE ARE GOING TO "WICKED" in L.A. !!!! Oh. My. Gosh. For those of you who don't know this... I have been DYING to see the musical "Wicked" for years now. I know every word to every song and it is my favorite musical even though I've never seen the show. My sibs and some friends pooled some dough for my 40th b-day to go... I've been hanging on to that and NOW... we're going!! Okay, I admit it... I am SUCH a Drama Geek!
Ooops... sorry Sierra... I'm sure your dancing will be just as AWESOME! She may feel like dis-owning me after having to deal with my limpy walk for that many days. I think I really need to get a Jazzy! (Did I mention... WICKED??)
8- Got to hang out at Scrapbook night with a bunch of my teacher friends. I never seem to get much done, but the company is GREAT! We talk our heads off, consume way too many baked goods and float away on a river of Diet Coke! This time we all enjoyed watching the SNL skit about Sarah Palin and Hilary Clinton. HAHAHAHA!!!
9- Get to inform my new insurance (1 week old.... grrrrr) that my teenage driver got a stinkin' speeding ticket! Can't we just lock 'em up until they're 21?
10- Thought longingly all week about the rest of my family being in Disneyland THIS week.
I think the girls have asked close to a hundred times... "When are Grandma and Grandpa coming back?" "When will Natalie be home?" "How many more days until Jaden gets back?" I think they musta missed ya!
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