"Wicked"

Chey got the tickets, memorized the music, and rather impatiently waited 'til the actual event! It was such an occasion for her that she thought she should stay home from school that day to celebrate. Ummm...no, didn't happen. However, it still turned out to be tons of fun and impossible not to catch her enthusiasm! (Obviously equally impossible to catch is how stunningly beautiful we REALLY looked!) Here we are outside the Capital Theater. We handed a guy the camera. He had US for models and ended up with...this? Yea, I know, it must have been the angle. But, no matter, we are there!!!

I snapped a picture in the mirror just before we went in. (angle again)

Here's Chey heading up the stairs to find our seat!!! Yikes!

This is the stage before it began. The costumes were magnificent, the actors adorable, and the music--out of this world! We felt like we were "defying gravity"! We loved it!!

Grandma Sleepover

Even though the new has worn off, I just had to post some pictures of my first du-du-du-dun...Grandma Sleepover! As scary as those words sound (from every angle) it actually turned out fun! We only had 2 rules. Everyone only got 3 cry's. After three, Grandma called your Mom and you had to go home. The second rule was to have fun! Cheyna and her friend Shelbee hid a treasure and the kids followed the map to find, to their joy... bubbles, sidewalk chalk, and play doh!

Kenna's armed and ready to start the action. Grandpa is in the background, also armed with a few "extra" bubbles---just in case.

Here's my little bubble blowers Adam, Kennady, and Lexy. Jaxson was working on his first "cry" but will join in the fun a little later. :)

"Is she serious? Only 3 cry's!"

"Bubbles? I don't see no stinking bubbles!"

And then there's Aunt Cheyna (sigh) the master bubble blower of them all.

We ended our outside fun with sidewalk chalk. All pictures turned out simply beautiful! Lexy is displaying her first, of many pictures. Ahhhh...a masterpiece!

We played with the play doh, got on everyone's jammies and watched "Bedtime Stories" until everyone went to sleep. (The last one dropping off at about midnight!) We only ended up with 2 extra's in our bed and made a (half) promise to do it again next spring!

Spring Catch-up

I just unloaded (uploaded?) some (319) pictures from my camera. Oops! Having a camera again reminds me that we actually DO do something. It also reminded me that it has been 3 months since I shared any pictures on the blog. Soooo, I'm catching up a bit. There has been some expected fun times and also some fun that was, let's say unexpected.

Here is a shot of my second chick night. We were supposed to be pretending to be scared here since the movie selection was "Twilight" but as you can tell no one was very convincing. Here's Aly and Chey, Becky holding Hallee, Brinley, Stephanie, me (who thought we were supposed to look scare-y) Becky Boo, and Lexy. We had fun and food but mostly I just love getting together with the girls. Aren't they cute?
Next shot is of Cheyna with some of her friends. They got "oh my gosh" tickets to see David Archuletta when he came to Salt Lake. The girls got together and made shirts with different pictures of David (sigh) and wore matching scarves in their hair. Here's a shot of some of them after making the shirts. The picture tells all.And this? Well this is an actual picture of David Archuletta (scream!!!) in real life, zoomed up, and personal. Yes and he sang right to them too. Just ask 'em.

The sun was nearly setting on a crisp Sunday evening when someone suggested a four-man pushup. It was so funny watching the logistics of the whole thing I ran and got the camera. They're not very clear but you can kind of make out the participants. Jake, Chey, Briant, Stephanie,and the cute little head is Adam.
Ta Daaaa! Here's one successful 4-man push-up!
Another circus performance from the great Briant! Here he is holding, and spinning not just one but 2! The 2 brave spinning females are Stephanie on the shoulders and Chey...attached on front. Ahhhh...spring is here.