The blog goes multimedia!

(Sorry the blog is a day late - figuring out multimedia stuff took all evening.)
This week has been crazy as the school year winds up and I've had extra teaching to do. I taught my usual Tuesday night class, and taught a Friday night and all day Saturday weekend intensive class as well.
Monday morning Darrin & I ventured to IKEA. When we got there, it wasn't all that crowded and we enjoyed looking around. After we'd been there 20 minutes or so, we heard an announcement "Attention shoppers: IKEA is now open." Well, duh, that's why it wasn't so crowded! Odd that there were others in there, too, and we were welcomed by an IKEA employee who said nothing about the store not being open yet. Very soon after that, the store became so PACKED that we couldn't wait to get out of there.
We went home & got the kids, then took them out to IHOP for lunch. Brynn was very excited to get the happy face pancake (a large chocolate chip pancake with a whipped cream face) and she ate the whole thing!
Then we went to a park and played for an hour or so, then had a BBQ at the Lythgoes in the evening. It was a fun Memorial Day.
Kyra had finals this week, she thinks she did well. (Maybe her scores are posted already - I'll go check now.) Only 2 scores posted, and those are both As, but the hard classes (Geometry & Spanish) haven't posted yet.
Callie's class has been working hard at presenting their "Cowboy Program" - a 45 minute program of songs (like "Home on the Range" "Deep in the Heart of Texas" etc.) speaking parts, and even a mini-melodrama in the middle (Callie was the narrator for that). The teacher really worked with them to get them to use an exaggerated cowboy twang, showed them clips of John Wayne movies to get the actors in the melodrama to walk right, etc. Darrin used the video option on our camera to take short video clips. Only one of the clips he took was short enough for a free upload so I could post it here. No, without further ado, here is the very first multimedia presentation on this blog (you may have to click twice to get it playing):

Brynn & I attended the dress rehearsal and then Darrin & I went to the final performance as well.
Here's a close-up of Callie in her costume to round out this week's edition: