INTRODUCING ----- MR. MAYOR

Tonight was opening night of Seussical jr. at PG Jr. High. Daniel was Mr. Mayor (aka the Who that Horton Heard) and did such a FANTASTIC JOB!!!! He even had a few small solo parts. It was such a great play. They did an awesome job. I only took a few pics tonight, but will take more when I go see the play again tomorrow and then I will post them. WAY TO GO DAN! (just so you know, you can see Dan perform tomorrow and Saturday night at 7 pm at PGJR)

HAPPY EASTER!!!

As we celebrate the Resurrection of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ this Easter season, you may want to take a minute (about 7 actually) to watch the video clip "The Bread of Life" which can be found at this website:

http://jesuschrist.lds.org/SonOfGod/eng/multimedia

"The Savior's Resurrection assures all of us that someday we, too, will follow Him and experience our own resurrection. What peace, what comfort this great gift is which comes through the loving grace of Jesus Christ, the Savior and Redeemer of all mankind."
(M. Russell Ballard, "The Atonement and the Value of One Soul," Ensign, May 2004, 84)

OUR VEGAS GETAWAY

Sorry it has taken sooo long to post anything about our REALLY fun trip to Vegas to celebrate Erin's birthday. Luckily, Erin has posted most of the pictures and told you about our trip, so check out her blog for the details. We did have such a great time. I really enjoyed just sitting around at her apartment and playing The Great Dalmuti and Loaded Questions (some of our family's favorite games). But, we did have a great time learning how to make chocolate straws at the chocolate factory, and WINNING stuffed animals at Circus Circus, and stuffing ourselves sick at the all you can eat buffet. Oh, and they all had a good time boxing each other on the Wii.

The ride home seemed long, partly because we had to stop a few more times than we wanted too, and because Lindsay was missing Erin so much that she cried all the way to Cedar City (and a few more hours after we got home). We are really looking forward to Erin's visit to PG in May for Lindsay's baptism.

DANIEL'S PLAY "Seusical" is NEXT WEEK (Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 7 pm at the Jr. High)

LINDSAY's BAPTISM will be on MAY 3 at 9:30 am. We will have a brunch afterward so plan to join us. (We will get out some invitations next month, but be sure to mark your calendars).

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO

ERIN

It is her birthday today, Sunday, March 16. Be sure to comment on her blog and wish her a HAPPY DAY!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ALYSSA

She is officially 11 years old
(as of March 11 at 10:27 pm)

My sweet little "Princess Dolly" is 11. Can you believe it?!? Where does all the time go. She was such a sweet baby . . . so easy going and happy. She is still such a beautiful sweetheart!

This year she decorated her own cake--chocolate with chocolate frosting covered with chocolate candy. Can you guess what her favorite treat is? hmmmm. We have her a big fuzzy GREEN body pillow, and money. She wanted to use all the money she got to buy herself a nintendo DS and a Babyz game. Amazingly, she chose a pink one (not green, go figure). So thanks to all of you who donated to the cause! Now she really is 1happycamper! She is also glad that her stuffed monkey collection is growing. She now has 102 monkeys! I think she is going to turn into a chocolate monkey one of these days!

This is Dan . . .see he does exist

He really did not want his picture taken, but since he missed the bottom step last Thursday and sprained his ankle, he was sort of captive so I could not resist. Anyway, I felt like I had to prove that he still existed since almost everything I post has to do with the girls. And just so you know, we did have the doctor check him out, and it IS just a sprain. He should be fine in few days. But the doctor did comment on his impressive growth plates which probably should help him reach at last 6'2" or 6'3" in her opinion. :-)

OH, and if you didn't know

We are celebrating Alyssa's 11th birthday tomorrow, Sunday March 9 at 6:00 pm at our house. She is decorating her own cake (with lots of chocolate and candy) so this should be great. Please JOIN US if you can. We usually celebrate Erin's birthday with Alyssa's, but since she is Vegas, we are going to go there next weekend and CELEBRATE with HER!

And we are BACK

Thank goodness for System Restore!!! I finally got the box to open, but before I officially did the restore, I checked with my very nice neighbor who said it was probably my best bet. AND HOORAY! We are back. Yes!

But, it is getting late- I know it is only 9:30, but we have to jump our clocks ahead tonight, so it is like 10:30. I think I will go to bed. All this computer stress has really wiped me out.

DON'T FORGET TO SET YOUR CLOCKS AHEAD ONE HOUR!

What to do!?! What to do?!?

Daniel tried to install some wifi program for his nintendo ds on our new computer and now NOTHING works right. I am posting this from my old, stupid, computer. I may have to go to Best Buy and get the geek squad to help me. I think I am stressed.

Itch, Itch, Scratch, Scratch, Golly Gee

It is about 11 pm and I am waiting for Alyssa to finally go to sleep. She went babysitting tonight and got home about 9:45 with a rash/hives up her arm. Anything we did (benadryl cream, hyrocortisone cream, soaking it in baking soda water, etc.) just made it more irritated. I gave her some oral Benadryl, but that wasn't going to help for 20 or 30 minutes. It was hurting her soooo bad that she was in tears. Finally I thought of aloe vera, but I only had some aloe vera juice that we had used for tummy troubles. I soaked a rag in it and wrapped her arm. It started helping so fast. After an hour of trying to figure out what to do, it was as simple as wrapping a rag around her arm. She finally calmed down. I think it was a combination of the oral Benadryl and the aloe vera. When I was growing up, my grandma always had an aloe vera plant that she broke open any time someone had a burn or a bite or a rash. I think I may try growing an aloe vera plant after tonight.

In like a Lion . . .

I KNEW WHEN I started this blog that I wouldn't be very good at posting interesting information. But, it would probably be a good idea to post at least every week or two, so here we go. First of all, I really LOVE reading my wonderful Erin's blog and the blogs of my very cute nieces.
CURRENTLY, some of us are not feeling very well at our house. Daniel and Rick went on a scout camp-out on Friday night, so Lindsay and Alyssa and I went to the MALL! Well, first we went to dinner at Mimi's, and then to the mall. By the end of dinner though, Alyssa was not feeling all that well, and so she wasn't as happy as she wanted to be about walking around the mall. We still had a great time. But, by the time we got home, her head was killing her and the glands in her neck were stiff and swollen. It was all she could do to get to bed. (Lindsay did not have much sympathy since she had complained of a sore neck all week and I told her it was probably just a little stiff from tumbling and to deal with it--occasionally I feel like such a bad mom). Anyway, today my neck and head are not feeling so well. Luckily we do not have to go to school tomorrow so we will have one more day to rest!!!
THE WEATHER turned really cold today. Yesterday, the wind started blowing soooo hard. Rick said when they were packing up from their camp-out the wind blew the tent over, but it didn't start storming here until late in the afternoon.
I CANNOT BELIEVE IT IS MARCH. We have a busy, but very fun month. ALYSSA's birthday is on the 11th. We are going to Las Vegas on the 14th to see Erin. ERIN's birthday is on the 16th. And don't forget Easter this month. ALSO . . . .
DANIEL's musical theatrical production will finish off the month. Seussical Jr.: Oh the Thinks You Can Think! It will be at PGJR March 27, 28, and 29 at 7:00 pm. We are sooo excited to watch his performace as Mr. Mayor. (He will be singing to us!!!)