Whirlwind Weekend!

We had a busy, busy, busy weekend!
We'll start with Thursday night, Kyra's first play. This was the play where she wouldn't tell us what her role was. The entire play was a series of short skits called "Thursday Night Live" (Original, eh?) and was written, produced, directed and acted by the students.
Kyra was in 2 of the skits. The first was a skit where she and a bunch of other students were mannequins that came to life and scared the janitor as they danced around.
The second skit was her starring role. She was (drumroll, please) "Flora the Explorer" and the whole skit was a parody of "Dora the Explorer" very funny and well done. She did a great job of getting the audience to participate and had some of the biggest laughs from the audience as well.
I took some video which isn't that great, so I'll not waste a half hour uploading it, you'll just have to trust me, she was good! Here is a picture we took afterwards:

Friday night Darrin & I went out & saw "27 Dresses" which was a cute chick flick movie.
Saturday we went to my mom & dad's house for dinner and to meet their cat, Dylan.

Callie was thrilled to be able to spend so much time playing with him. Dylan is a very fun, energetic cat and was willing to play the whole time we were there.

Brynn laughed and laughed and laughed at the cat's antics. She laughed about it most of the way home, too! But she was also fascinated by grandpa's magnifier, and I caught this great picture:

Brynn & Grandma Marge also did a puzzle together:

(Kyra was there, too, I swear! Apparently I never pointed the camera her way.)
Sunday after church I went home teaching with Darrin and then we went to the Lythgoe's for Dennis' birthday party. We mostly had a fun evening, but halfway through the evening they got a call informing them of Pres. Hinckley's death, which kind of put a damper on things.
We're in the middle of our second snowstorm of the week - with more to come on Friday - and I am anxiously awaiting the arrival of SPRING! When I went to pick up Callie, Brynn and a friend of Brynn's at school the other day, there was SO much snow that I got stuck in the parking lot and had to dig out the wheels. My entire windshield was covered enough that I needed to brush it off (too much for the wipers) in the 5 minutes it took to walk over and meet the girls by their classes! I am SO grateful I decided to take some time off from births and have not been on call this month!
Want to see what else I have been working on this week? CLICK HERE! I have been helping with putting the program together, getting it approved for continuing education hours, and I designed the whole web site (including the logos and graphics) myself!
And tonight........ parent orientation for the HIGH SCHOOL! Yes, Kyra will be at the high school next year. Plus the informed me the other day that this time next year she can have her driving permit. YIKES!

In context

Note: If you haven't read my post below called "Out of Context" you might want to read it first. Otherwise none of this will make sense!

1. Brynn was taking a bath. She was supposed to be washing herself while I went to get jammies form her room. Instead, she was playing with a dolphin. When I walked back into the bathroom, she thought she could fool me into thinking she was washing by rubbing the dolphin in her armpits. I was not fooled.

2. Callie & Brynn were having an argument about whether or not buffalo tongues were slimy (I have no idea how that got started) and asked me to cast the deciding vote. I told them to go ask dad, because he was once licked by a buffalo. It was back when he was in college, doing an internship for the Deseret News, and he was interviewing a buffalo farmer up in Heber. And just to show I'm not making it up, here is Darrin with the buffalo, either right before or right after the licking.



3. Brynn was doing a homework assignment for school where she traced 3 family members feet and had to measure them using "non-standard" measurement. She had just come running to me to tell me that my feet were THIRTEEN ALMONDS LONG!!!!! and I sent her to go back and finish the last one.

So there you have it - perfectly reasonable explanations for all of them!

And as a side note, last night when we went to bed, there was NO snow. We woke up to this:

Yep, that's about 14 inches of snow, and it's still coming down! Kyra & Brynn are out playing in it right now.
Callie is feeling much better today, her fever is under 100 finally, and the swelling in her throat is way down. She's hopeful she'll be able to go to school tomorrow, but since her voice is still really bad and she's not able to eat normally yet, I don't think it's looking good. Poor kid couldn't even cheer on the Patriots yesterday:



But Brynn had the perfect solution:



Kyra was excited to see Darth Vader playing, but was glad that the Dark Side lost the game:



And Brynn made a bigger & better set of signs to hold up. If only she was better about knowing WHEN to cheer for the defense. She was cheering for the defense when Brady was intercepted in the end zone, so you can all blame her.



She also announced in Primary that daddy stayed home to watch the Patriots game, conveniently leaving out Callie's sickness.

Darrin & I went to see "Lend Me a Tenor" at the Hale Centre Theatre Friday night. You know it is a classy place because they spell everything with an "re" instead of an "er". It was a funny play, very well done.

And I think that is about all there is to say.

Ulterior motives

Callie is sick today: fever, sore throat, cough, the works. Upon learning she was sick, Darrin immediately offered to stay home from church with ehr tomorrow. SUch a loving, nurturing dad, right? I suspect this

Had more to do with it!

Out of context

Every now & then, I find myself saying things that sound really wierd. They make perfect sense in the context of what's going on at the time, but yet I can't believe I just said that. Here are some examples from this past week:

Dolphins are not for cleaning your armpits.

Ask Daddy, he’s the one with the most experience with buffalo tongues.

Good! Now go put almonds on dad’s feet.

Oddly, every last one of these was said to Brynn.

Yeah PATRIOTS!

Tonight we had a little family Patriots Pizza Party.

The kids decorated (using decorations originally made for the Super Bowl a few years back)

And we all (exept for Callie) wore one of Darrin's Patriots T-shirts. (And there were still a few left in his dresser drawers. It's an addiction, I think.)
Brynn was fascinated by some fans holding up a big "D" and a fence. We had to explain to her what "defense" was in football, and she was boggled by the concept. And she made her own signs to hold, but was mostly clueless about which order the "D" and the "fence" were supposed to be.

And the Patriots won, which made for a happy day around here!

In other news, Callie competed in the school geography bee this year. She did pretty well, I suppose you could say she came in third. They had whittled the group down from about 20 contestants to 8. They were asking questions and having the kids write down their answers so everyone was answering the same question all at once. Six contestants, including Callie, were eliminated in a single question. The two who were left placed 1st and 2nd. Don't know if there was an official third place - a 6 way tie seems like too much.

Brynn went to a sledding party this morning for a kindergarten friend and had a blast. She's by far the bravest of our three girls, which isn't saying much. But I'm thinking maybe she'll actually be willing to learn to ride a bike, something we've never managed to get the older two to agree to even try!
Kyra's busy with rehearsals for two different school plays and trying to keep up with homework. Darrin & I are just trying to keep up with our various jobs & businesses, as well as household stuff. I am ready for winter to be OVER and for Spring to come!

Happy Birthday Sarah!

I won't say how many years it has been.....

The things you find....

Just before Christmas I was looking for the places I had hidden gifts (sometimes it is hard to remember! I *think* there is a ladybug ball that I bought for Callie when she turned 5 still hidden somewhere in the house. This year I did manage to find everything!) and came across our old film camera, the one we never use now that we've gone digital. It had a mostly used roll of film in it, so out of curiosity, I finished off the roll and dropped it off to be developed.
Today I picked them up. I'm guessing they are about 2 years old. They are pictures of when my dad took Kyra & her cousin Katie hiking to Secret Lake. I didn't go, but it sure looks like a good time was had by all!
As soon as Kyra gets home from her rehearsal, I can't wait to show them to her!