Christmas in the Heart of a Child

Callie's play opened last night - it is really a collection of 6 mini-plays. Callie appeared in 5 of them, mostly in minor roles.
The first one was "Santa and the Gimmee Gimmee" I bet you can guess the plot:

Then the "Nutcracker" which was primarily a made-up backstory to the ballet. In the backstory, Callie played "Madamoiselle Mouserinks" who is the mother of the Mouse King. The backstory was played out in shadow while Drosselmeyer narrates. Callie is the middle one in the shadows below:

In the "Gift of the Magi" (which was just the traditional story) Callie was a background player in a scene on the street. You can see her in the purple dress in the picture in the bottom middle:

After intermission was the LITTLE plays, starting with the "Little Match Girl". Callie's only role in this play was to be the Match Girl's dead body lying on a corner of the stage in the scenes where the match girl is in heaven. Being the mommarazzi that I am, I still got a photo:

Then came "The Littlest Angel" - the only play Callie was not in:

And finally, "The Little Drummer Boy". Callie was part of the "Child Angel Chorus" and did a lot of ribbon twirling:

Then came a big finale number with song, dance, and the various casts taking a bow:

Callie has had a lot of fun and really enjoyed her stage debut!

(The photo on the bottom left is Kyra talking to Chris Heimerdinger, Callie's castmate and author of the "Tennis Shoes Among the Nephites" books. She used to LOOOOOVE those books and so she went and introduced herself to him.)
The play runs through Dec. 7 if you want to see it....

Brigadoon!

So Kyra is doing an amazing job in this show! There is one more show Monday night if you haven't seen it yet and want to! Here's a bunch of pictures from Thursday and Friday's shows:
















And.....I think that's enough!

November's half over....

So I thought I'd post a wee update. Notice the Scottish accent? That would be because Brigadoon is opening this week, and Kyra's practicing her accent is kind of rubbing off on me....
So what have we been up to?
Well, I had a birth up at LDS hospital, and the view of the capitol as you're leaving the parking garage is stunning at 4 am:

And Darrin got a new laptop:

And Callie & Brynn won a trophy and a medal at school for their poem and drawing. (respectively)

And Darrin & I went to a hockey game. (Yes, a hockey game!)


But I didn't know the women were supposed to bring their knitting:

And just in case you were wondering if Satan is real, he is. We saw him at the hockey game. I got photographic proof.

And that's about it!

Halloween 2009

So Brynn made her own ballerina costume, Callie was Little Red Riding Hood, and Kyra was Thing #1 from Dr. Seuss. (Everyone always wanted to know where Thing #2 was, but Thing #2 forgot to make a costume...)

The bottom picture is from the IAT party, so it also has cousins Zack, Syndnee & Ashlyn (Dave's kids) in it. Bonus for you, lucky readers! Sadly, it is the only one I got of Kyra in her costume. Not sure how that happened!
We carved Jack O Lanterns from pumpkins we grew ourselves this year. Brynn even carved hers all by herself!


It was a busy 3 day affair this year, with the school festivities on Thursday, several parties on Friday (Including one Callie hosted for her friends) and then the church party and trick or treating on Halloween itself!