Play in a Day

Here is the concept. The theme was "What Really Happened A Villain's side of the story. The Wards met on a Friday night and each group picked out of a hat the name of the movie they would be depicting. Our Ward got " The Little Mermaid", others were, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Hercules, and Beauty & the Beast. They had Friday night to brain storm and the director had that night to write a script and then from 10am to 10pm on Saturday they gathered all their props and rehearsed and practiced so that at 7pm they could perform their play for the Stake. At first my attitude was they have so much going on with the end of school and Girl's Camp certification that the Stake must be crazy...but as I got more and more involved and realized that this was a welcomed distraction from school and how much the kids enjoyed it. I humbly decided this was a good idea after all!

Throughtout the show Sierra as Chef Louie chases Sebastian trying to get some crab legs. That was a funny element of their performance as well.
"But you will taste so good with butter."
"You would not deprive me of my favorite dish, crab legs would you?"
"I must have you! You are so delicious!!"

The basis of the script is Ursula is telling the audience how Ariel needed some quick cash so she sold her voice on E-bay and Ursula won the bid and used the voice to get on the Idol show. Ariel discovers she can not tell Erik she loves him or talk to him on her new cell phone without a voice so she goes to Idol to get her voice back. Another of the performances on Idol are Ariel's Mersisters performing a water ballet. It was a big crowd pleaser!!

They did a ballet! Then they laid on their backs and there was a paper ocean in front of them folded down and they did water ballet movements with their feet in beat to the music! It was so funny!!

We got 2nd place! Our was easily the most understandable story... but the 1 that won 1st place had a duel scene with jumping and sword fighting kind of hard to beat a chorographed fight!

Sierra's Very OWN Talent Show

Last Saturday our ward had a talent show. Sierra was going to sing with a friend but the friend backed out at the last minute. Well she had already spent the week deciding on what songs they could do. So when we returned home Doug & I were treated to Sierra's very own talent show.

Walk with ME

I thought today I would take you on one of my walks...





I have been walking since our last snow on April 10th. I have really enjoyed taking pictures of all the signs of springs as I walk. I have been working up to my bigger routes. So today I finally felt like I could handle a 3 mile walk. So I went to the lake & of course I took my camera along. I hope you like the pictures. I was fortunate enough to see some wild life. Just as I was leaving a Gray Heron landed. I was thrilled. I will share with you the amazing tranformation this place takes on in late Spring & early Summer. It is so beautiful & so full of life then.
Thanks for coming along!

Signs of Spring

Yesterday I went walking after we got some light snow Wednesday night.
These pictures were the motivation to go walking.
I love taking my camera & capturing the world as I see it that day!
We truely live in a beautiful world...

Hinckley Challenge update....

My Progress so far...

Problem: a PILLOW that is too FLAT

Doug's Solution: make 2 pillows that are really flat into 1 FLUFFY pillow!

Procedure: Tear open 2 pillows & shred them. At first Doug tried scissors but Sierra showed him tearing off chunks was much easier & more efficient





By the time they had shredded 2 pillows....
it looked like they were in the middle of a cloud.





Sierra looked so angelic on her cloud!



Then Doug stuffed about 1/2 of the stuffing back into one of the pillow cases & sewed it shut. and he had a very fluffy pillow indeed!





Can you tell there is not A LOT going on around here to tell you about.. but I wanted to add something new! Wendy

Easter Outfit

Well turns out that I was still suffering from the NASTIEST OF FLU BUGS EVER. SO I have yet to wear my Easter outfit.
But Sierra wore hers & it was lovely!!



Here is a closer look!!!





The best part of this outfit is that the beautiful silk oriental looking skirt was the Bargin of the Century. When Sierra & I went to Loveland for a "ski trip"... We don't ski!... so we went shopping & in Coldie Water Creekie we found this skirt. The tag says $98.00 reduced to $60.00 and the day we found it clearanced at $10.00. Then Yellow is Sierra's favorite color so we decided a lovely pale yellow would be nice color to accessorize with the rest of the outfit!! And you can not clearly see it but she even has yellow & green bands on her teeth for Easter.

Maybe the Sunday after Conference I will get to wear my out fit!