ANNIE GET YOUR GUN

Last week we received a call from Roger's Memorial Theatre asking Bron to audition for the part of Little Jake in the musical Annie Get Your Gun. Bron had been referred by the director of our school play. He was darling at the auditions and he got the part. We practice almost every day, even on Saturday - three hours a day. (a bit more than I had expected) His part is also a lot bigger than I thought it would be with 15 or so speaking lines, several songs and also a short little solo. The play will have a one month run and he will be performing three times a week. I hope he can hold out. Working with adults has been fun for Bron. They are all so kind and cute with him.
I can't wait to see him perform.

Bronson is growing up. He looks so much older to me and he has really thinned out. He seems all bony now. He was assigned to pull all the weeds by the basketball hoop. He complained and whined and went about as slow as he could, but he managed to get every since weed, even if it did take him two hours. (he really did take two hours and he could have done it in about 15 minutes) We had a really weird episode with Bronson this last month. He was walking home from church through the field and a stick poked him in the side of his foot by his ankle. I don't know how that happened, but he was carried home by a neighbor boy. The stick was coming out the side of his ankle. I pulled it out. He said he couldn't walk and crawled around for the rest of the day. I figured he would stop crawling and jump up and play when we were with the cousins that night, but he didn't. The next morning he was crying in his bed and said he could not walk on his foot. It was swollen and hot where the stick had gone in, but nothing crazy. We took him to the doctor where x-rays and ultrasounds were done. Nothing was broken and there was no piece of a stick found in his ankle. They drew around the redness with a black sharpie and sent us home with Augmentin antibiotics. The next morning the redness had doubled in size. We took him to Primary Children's where they drew a line around the additional swelling. By the time the doctors could take the time with him, the swelling had grown considerably from where it was that morning. Bron was admitted to the hospital for IV antibiotics for 24 hours. We should have seen a marked decrease in the swelling. The swelling did stop, but did not decrease any and he still could not bare any weight on his foot. After about 36 hours we were sent home on two different antibiotic (something really strong that they don't like to give to people). After about another four days he was finally able to walk on his foot.

It is actually still swollen, but the redness and heat are gone. This seemed like such hassle for one stickin' stick.

Bron says he will never play in the field again. I hope he will, but he'd better not have another stick jump up and poke him in the leg again!

SUGAR AND SPICE AND EVERYTHING NICE

I cannot even begin to tell you how fun it is to have this little girl. She is all girl, but very playful and active. Santa gave her this jewelry box for Christmas. It has a ballarina that dances around while it plays music. Kali will dance with it. She loves playing with the jewelry and I love to watch her.

Working in Florida

I thought this was a cute picture of my preschool taking a field trip to the Western Nut Company. They get to have tons of samples. It's a really fun trip.

This year was our first time to go to the Peanut and Tree Nut Convention. It was in Florida at a beautiful resort. While the men went to several meetings my mom and I got to hang out by the pool. Here are a couple of fun pictures from our trip.

We also went to Bush Garden's while we were on this trip. It was the perfect season to go. The crowds were small, lines were short and the weather was wonderful!

Easter Bunny Antics

I thought the Easter Bunny got pretty creative this year with his egg hiding. Usually when the kids get up there is string that they get to follow throughout the house that will lead them to their first clue. They will then have three or four clues and these will lead them to their basket. This year there was not string.

When the kids came upstairs their baskets were in plain sight, but they were empty except for a piece of paper that had 20 or so picture clues. The kids had to study the pictures closely and figure out where the eggs, or treats were hidden.

This one was in the cereal cupboard next to a box of Cocoa Pebbles. . . This one was in one of our plants in the living room.

The kids really had a lot of fun and were pretty stumped with several of the clues. It took about an hour to find all of the goodies.

Updates

Kalia is getting so big.
One of her first times having her hair curled. She loved having the curlers in and now walks around the house with the bag of curlers quite often. They are her new favorite toy.

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Loren is coaching Matt's competition basketball team. We had these beenies custom made for their team. We also had their team name embroidered on the back of these warm ups. Of course, all the boys had to get a pair.

Better Late Than Never

Heather and Mike's sweet new baby girl is finally here. At one week over due, Melia Virginia Morgan (I think that is the whole name) has come into the world. She is a darling 7 pound 1 ounce baby.

I can't wait to see her again!

Moans and Groans and Skeleton Bones. . .

Kalia used two different costumes this year. She was a cute little witch at the ward party. We got the dress from Kristy and then my friend Sarah just happened to have a hat that matched perfectly. I have to say she was a mighty cute witch.Yes . . . at 14+ months Kali is finally walking.

I was very proud of my cute cupcakes I took to the party.

Mike and Bron both carved their own pumpkins. Mike's is on the left, Bron's is on the right. With the great knives you can buy in the pumpkin carving kits, Bron actually did carve his own.

Kali was not sure what to think about the pumpkin guts. Mike kept pulling them out and she kept putting them back in. It was pretty funny.

Here we are at the parade at the school. Matt is one of the aliens from Pizza Planet (Toy Story movie).

Mike actually didn't go trick or treating on Halloween. He chose to go to the Utah blackout game with Loren. Mike was happy to wear his football jersey at the school parade. I can't believe how old he is starting to look.

Kali got this darling poodle costume from Aunt Kristy.

Bron borrowed a costume from our friend Sarah. He loved the fact that both he and Kali were dogs.