Success!!!!!!!

Ok, it's finally over. I'm actually really sad. It's been building up to that one moment for weeks and weeks and the nervousness had been building and building and I thought that I was going to go crazy. Then the week before I come down with a horrid cold. Drat!!!! This cannot be happening to me. The one time I get the nerves and then I have a horrible cold start. AHHHHHH!!! For those of you who don't know or remember what I am talking about, it was our Choir Concert the 12th and 13th of December and I was singing a solo. Well it's over now. The whole week leading up to it was crazy. I had a horrible cold saturday night that just came out of nowhere. It started with a scratchy throat and a stuffed up nose and it escalated super fast. I was dying sunday and monday. Scott was so sweet and stayed home from school monday and I got to rest the whole day. He's just the best and always so thoughtful of helping me.

Tuesday night we had our normal practice and I had a little bit of a voice but I just couldn't project it. Thursday night it was back a little bit better but my ears were completely plugged and my nose was so stuffy. Luckily one of my friends there told me to use the saline nasal spray and another friend gave me a pack of super strong menthol gum that clears out those sinuses. WOW!!!! Anyway so I used all of those and Saturday night came.

My song wasn't until the 2nd half and the third song. The first half flew by and there was a pretty good crowd. Intermission. I was singing my solo over and over again to make sure I could get it. Then 2nd half started. Before I knew it the 2nd song was ending. Oh my goodness I thought I would have a million butterflies but I didn't. I just walked down to the microphone, took a deep breath and smiled. The choir started and it was my turn to sing. Deep breath, and out came the song. It was so easy. That gave me a lot of confidence and I just keep going. It was great. I was nervous for my last entrance because finding the note when the choir is holding their note was hard during rehearsal. I don't know why because it wasn't that wierd of a note but anyway, I got it and just sang it out. It was great.

Then Sunday night, I don't know why but I was not nervous one bit up until about the last half of the song right before my solo. Then BAM!! I was hit with a ton of butterflies and the shakes. Oh my word it was crazy. But the solo was fine, I don't think as good as the first night but it was still good.

If you were able to make it thanks for coming and if not, I am going to get a copy of the music that maybe I can figure out how to put it on here.

I still don't know if I want to do another solo though. It's very nerve wracking!!!!!!!

Dirty Clothes

I was doing laundry a while ago and had put all the colors into the same laundry hamper and the girls(mostly Elizabeth) had pulled that hamper out into the Living Room. She decided to dump it out and started pulling on the clothes. It was so cute. I didn't get a picture of it but by the end of the day she was wearing a skirt of Megan's drapped over her shoulder, a dress of hers and mismatched pairs of socks of mine and an old winter cap that was purple with white and pink snowmen on it with a huge purple pompom on top(it was from the 80's).


She's very proud of herself for getting these clothes on. She's miss independent with getting herself dressed lately.

Doing Dishes

Scott had the day off a while ago. I know these pics are a little out of date but oh well, you finally get to see them. Megan was at school but Kaylee and Elizabeth sure had fun. The love helping do dishes and making bubbles pop. Liz insists each time that I help her sing the "popping bubbles" song from Dora over and over and over and over and over(well you get the idea) again.
I haven't posted pictures on here for so long that when I put them on here I realized that I hadn't rotated them so these are pictures viewed from the side. Sorry. We had to take Liz's clothes off because she was soaked.

Soooooooo Tired.........

Well last night was the big night. We had a blast. I think I may not every recover the sleep I lost but oh well, it was worth having fun with friends. I don't have the laptop to upload photos so those will have to come later. I do have some pretty fun pics of all of us standing in line waiting to go in. Luckily we live in a small enough town that we didn't have to get in line hours and hours and hours before hand.

We met at my house and thought about having ice cream and brownies but all of us were full from dinner and just too excited so we had a taste and left at 10:20 to the theatre which is just a couple blocks from my house. We got there and there weren't too many people waiting. But within about 10-15 minutes it got pretty packed. They opened up 3 theatres to show the film.

A lot of Scott's High School students were there and so we conspired with them to help us sing Happy Birthday to our friend Amy. She was pretty surprised when everyone there joined in. Happy Birthday Amy.

Now on to the movie. It was good, I really liked it. I couldn't help giggling when all the teenage girls in the theatre(surprisingly I don't think they were the Majority) aahh and screamed a little when Jacob made his big first appearance. So funny. In the words of Larry the Cucumber from "Veggie Tales"..... "I laughed, I cried, It moved me Bob."

Definitely a fun movie to see. Even for husbands, the Wolves were HUUUUUUUUGGGGEEEE!!! I didn't get home until 2:45 and didn't get in bed until 3:00, kids were all up at 6:00, I was in and out of bed until 7:30 to run Megan to the bus stop. Surprisingly enough though I am not as tired as I thought I would be, this afternoon though I am sure I will crash!!!!!

I'll post pictures later tonight or tomorrow.

Twilight Truffles

My friend Sophie bought these when she went on a trip to Utah and got them for me because she knew we were going to the midnight showing and having a party before hand. If you can't read it says I creve (crave) Jacob or Edward. Awesome. I thought you all might enjoy seeing these. They are mint and raspberry truffles.

NEW MOON

Ok, first I better preface this that I am not a fanatic but I do like the books. I went with friends to see Twilight when it was in the Theatre. Well here is another Twilight series movie coming out and we are going to have a blast with it. A group of us bought our tickets a month or so ago and are very excited to have a girls night out.

We are meeting at my house before the show at 9:30 pm and are having an ice cream social and then we will be heading to the theatre to stand in line(hopefully not in the rain) at 11:00 pm so that we can be some of the first to see the show at 12:00 AM. Are we crazy or what. Scott keeps teasing me that I am so obsessed with Twilight but I must say he is the one who bought me the books. I hadn't even seen the trailer for the movie until the first of last week when I realized maybe I should see what the movie will be since I already have my ticket. My friend also gave me a copy of the People magazine that is totally devoted to the Twilight Series and the New Moon movie.

I think it will be funny because a big group of Scott's High School students will all be there and they keep telling Scott how excited they are to go. He keeps telling them that I will be there because I am Obsessed.

Funny story about Vampires and Scott. (Very cute too!!!) Last year I mentioned I went to Twilight with my friends and Scott was afraid that I was falling in love with Robert Patterson(not sure if last name is right). Well I assured him that I wasn't, that I wasn't in love with Edward the character either. Well our anniversary was about a month after the movie came out and Scott was debating on what to get for me. He wanted something new and fun. What he came up with was a book called Vampire Kisses. (HaHa) Well the book was one he found on line with a company that has a bunch of pre-fab books that you enter names and a few other details about you like favorite drink, restaurant, pets names, etc. Well they put that info into a book and you have your very own book staring you. So for our anniversary I got this book called Vampire Kisses staring me and Scott the vampire. LOL. I opened the package and just started laughing so hard. Scott was grinning from ear to ear and said that Edward had nothin' on him. He's too cute and sweet. I love him tons.

What happened to keeping up on this?

Ok I thought that I would be so good at keeping a blog and adding to it at least once a week. Well let's see that last post was Sept 19th I believe and now it is Nov. 12. Wow time seems to have flown by. Oh well. I guess I will just have to get better. Life is busy and fun. Megan is amazing and is reading and writing all the time. She is sounding out all kinds of words and for the most part is getting them correct. Kaylee is taking it by storm too, she sees what Megan is doing and is catching on so fast. I bought both of them a sight words workbook and they love it and are really doing well with the different words. Elizabeth is wild, crazy, adorable, mischievous, a terror, the cutest thing I have ever seen, smart and reminds me a lot of Megan at that age.
We moved Elizabeth's bed into Megan and Kaylee's bedroom and had fun turning her old room into a fun little reading room/play room. The girls love it. Elizabeth sleeps half the night in her bed and the other half in our bedroom on a little kids couch on the ground.
I'm very excited, this Saturday we get to go to the Temple. Yeah. A guy in our ward was baptized about a year ago and has received his mission call and is going to the Temple to receive his endowments on Saturday. We decided that we wanted to go to support him. Scott's calling works with the Missionaries off and on and he has known Kirk for a while.

We have to drive into Portland and so it turns into an all day event, two hours driving there, three to four hours in Portland and two hours driving back. Luckily we have some great friends who are going to watch the girls for us all day Saturday. Thank you So much Lori and Rich.

I'll have to add pictures later. Sorry for my ramblings I'm sure most of you probably didn't want to spend several minutes reading about it but if you did thanks. Sometimes it helps me organized my thoughts when I can just ramble on and let them all come out. Scott is busy watching his show "Bones" and so this is where I will spill my ramblings.

Tomorrow night I have a performance for the North Coast Chorale-the choir I sing with-it's a community choir. We are actually singing with the Symphony Orchestra and just one song called a Fantasia on Christmas Carols. It's really pretty but there is a soloist and he just can't quite keep pitch or hit the right notes and we've only practiced with the Orchestra once, it's going to be interesting. But I am very excited for our Christmas performances. It will be so fun. We are doing several Gospel type Christmas songs. The theme is the songs of Angels. I am also excited because I have a solo. Ok I am very nervous too. We practiced the song for the first time on Tuesday and luckily it was just with the women for the first time I had to sing. I've had a cold and can't hear anything and my head is so plugged up. Well I was stinkin' nervous but I think I'll be ok and get used to it. Yeah, I am very excited about having a solo, I've always wanted to. Most of the people in the choir are 40s and older and they are so fun and great to sing with. I love it.

Sorry I'll stop now. Look for pics later.