The Secret Garden

Mikayla auditioned for a local play a few months ago and has been committed to regularly attending rehearsals ever since.

Finally, after weeks and weeks, we finally were able to watch the full scale production last night.

Nice job Mikayla!



Here is a short slide show of the undercover pictures I snapped from the second row. Mikayla is in most of the pics, but I also took some of her friends and the other characters.



~E

In The Spotlight

Tanya and I were able to go watch a choir concert put on at Alexia's school today.

Alexia and her fellow fourth graders sang a medley of songs from the 1960's and 1970's. They sang Aquarius, Both Sides Now, Fun Fun Fun, Twist & Shout, Old Time Rock and Roll and Listen To The Music.

Here she is wearing her tye-dyed shirt and headband... like everyone wore in the 1960's.



Video clips were prohibited - in fact, you're darn lucky there are any pictures of her event whatsoever! Shhhh... don't tell her. :)


Mikayla is performing in The Secret Garden for the first time tonight. If you hurry you can still get tickets for the Friday night performance!

Here is a picture from today's newspaper which just happens to have the M & M's in it. Our "M" is on the right, in green, sitting down.



Tanya is currently at the first performance. The whole family will be at the Friday performance and you can expect more pics in a future blog posting.

~E

At Mikaylas Freshman Orientation!

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Dog Caper 2011!

Amazing Grace and Fireflies

Amazing Grace... crappy video. Sorry that you have to stare at this person's nose for an extended duration.



That was Mikayla and the Mt. Baker Middle School choir singing at the beginning of the April School Board meeting.

Following that traditional performance, I was lucky enough to be invited to the impromptu world premier of The M & M's singing Fireflies.
In the rain.

The mid-performance interruption was when they discovered an unexpected audience in the background.



FWIW, Dog Caper is right around the corner. You may remember that exciting event from last year. Let's pray this year is a little more predictable.

~E

Easter 2011

We had a relatively predictable Easter this year.

Regardless of how that sounds, it's actually a good thing.  Sometimes our holiday events end up taking an unexpected turn.  Such as the Christmas vacation that involved no less than six trips to the airport, 12 inches of snow, 3 days of constant flight status monitoring and someone's allergic reaction to antibiotics.  Heck, that was all before we even left Seattle!  Then there was the Emergency Room visit on my Birthday when Tanya had an allergic reaction, the kids were freaking out that we'd be arrested for leaving the restaurant without paying and they saw an ER patient get handcuffed to a gurney by a police officer.

Yes, predictable Holidays are our favorites.

The day before Easter, Sue and Steve arrived along with Gavin and Aleigh.
We all had fun coloring Easter Eggs.











Alright, the kids had fun coloring eggs. The dog enjoyed waiting for someone to drop something and the rest of us had fun doing anything except coloring eggs.







The cousins slept over at our place and we did our best to capture four smiles at once on Easter morning.

Instead of four smiles, we managed to get a stiff cat (left), a flamingo (center) and an 'almost but not quite' bored teen. The fourth smile... running just a few seconds late I guess.



Better boost my photoshop skills before the next holiday so we don't need to worry so much about them smiling for the pictures.

~~Had to delete the animated .gif. Sorry you missed it.~~

Once we finished the annual photo shoot antics, we enjoyed a nice Easter service at Church and then a pleasant brunch afterwards.

Happy Easter!

~E