Fred needs a haircut, too!

Tyler had to make a grass head, too!

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Jonhny needs a haircut!

Zachary's class made grass heads and his was on display in the library.

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Haircut Day...the end result

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Haircut Day

Tyler decided he wanted a haircut like his brother...with blonde hair and a massive cowlick...that's not an easy task!

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Happy Birthday, Hunter!

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The waitress liked Tyler...

& gave him a huge cookie after lunch :-)

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Pink Punk

At the school carnival today, Laurel decided to get her hair dyed pink. It was rather interesting going shopping with her later in the day.

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Grrrrl skiiers rule!

Laurel had to come in and take a break today.

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One of these things just doesn't belong!

Everyone skis but Mom!

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Zachary lost his front tooth!

He was so worried about it coming out while he skis today...so we used the dental floss trick and out it popped!

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Worn Out

Tyler was worn out from skiing and at lunch he was not happy being told to stay in his seat!

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Saturday Mornings

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There has been a fever in my house for 11 days straight! I'm no longer a patient caregiver!

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It's been over a year!

What a bad blogger I've been! I'm gonna try to do a little better! We will see how it goes!

This is for you, Tiff!

Hi everyone. Since my last post we have been soooooo busy! School has started, soccer has started, Tyler had his 4th birthday, today is Laurel's 10th birthday and the biggest chunk of our time has been....another PLAY! Laurel auditioned for a play at the local university. The theater dept. here has a great theater season with at least 4 shows every semester. The plays are done as part of the theater majors required credits and occasionally they need children. The auditions for the fall semester were held the end of August right before school started. For the four plays being done this semester Annie Get Your Gun needed 3 kids, and the other 3 plays needed a total of 5 more kids. Since it was our first experience with all this we let Laurel audition for only Annie Get Your Gun. There were at least 30-40 kids there for audtions and Laurel got a part!!!!!We were so proud of her! She played Nellie, Annie Oakley's little sister. After 5 weeks of practice, sometimes 6 nights a week and some practices lasting over 5 hours, not getting home until 11:30 on a lot of school nights...the show finally opened on Sept. 25th and ran for ten shows through Oct. 4th. It was GREAT! Unfortunately no cameras or video were allowed because of copyright laws but my mother-in-law did manage to get a couple shots with her phone. So here is one final shot of the kids taking their bows. Laurel is the one on the left with the red longjohns under her light colored dress. The sad part about after it was over was that the next morning she had a fever of 103.9°F and was home sick with the flu for the entire week last week. Now this week her brother is home sick! UGH!

OK...I got some of the smaller video clips to upload...see if you can watch these and if not...go down to the next post to see the photos...

Laurel had drama camp last week and got a lead part in Cinderella Kids! It was her first time auditioning and she did great! She started camp on Monday, auditioned Monday afternoon, found out she got the part of Drizella, one of Cinderella's mean stepsisters, at about 5 PM Monday afternoon, had camp everyday from 8:30 am to 5:30 pm and put on 2 performances on Saturday. It was amazing! One week! I've been trying to upload a video, but I haven't had any luck...I think the file is too big so I'm going to try to do it on You Tube and post from there. Until I figure it out...here are a few photos of the performance. Laurel is in the red dress with blue flowers and trim.


"Why does she get to try on the slipper?"
"Cinderella, go clean up that mess!"

"It fits! I told you it was my slipper!"

"Girls, don't forget to give Cinderella your laundry...It's DIRTY SOCK day!"

"Oh, poor Cinderella, there will be other dances!"

Well howdy everyone! I haven't posted on this blog in quite a while. I've been posted on my scrapbooking blog more because I've been scrapping old pictures but here is a layout I did the other day with some recent pictures. The week the kids got out of school they earned coupons for the local ice cream parlor so I took them for their ice cream. Don't you love their silly, messy faces!

credits: About a Boy kit by Designs By Mel, template by Ginny Tallent at the Pretty Scrappy July Template challenge

Laurel at the Talent Show

Our church has an annual talent show to raise support for our short term missions team. Laurel played in 2 numbers this year. Here she is (on the left) playing the duet of "Chorus from Judas Maccabaeus"