Bye Bye Birdie

We made a special trip up north this last weekend to see my brother, Mike, as one of the leads in his high school play Bye Bye Birdie. He wears a dark wig and gets to act like Elvis. It is rather hilarious and we enjoyed seeing him display his awesome hip shaking talents. He has a great singing voice, and it was fun to see all the girls screaming and clamoring for him. I think that it's not a far cry from what his real life is like!

We love you Mike!

The Blogging Phenom

Okay so if you are reading this you most likely have a blog of your own so I am sure you can understand what I am about to say. Blogging has been a great outlet for me, but I feel like level 2 of the blog game has been unlocked and I am somewhat overwhelmed.
One of my highschool friends found my blog so of course I went to check hers out, well her blog was connected to many more of my old friends blogs and so I went exploring and was SHOCKED. Everyone is out there, and everyone is sooo talented and blessed. I think I would have been much happier to have stayed in my own safe little blogging world. Do you ever find yourself comparing your blog and LIFE to everyone elses? I come up short in sooo many areas.
I guess I should try to remember my original intentions for blogging. I am glad to have reconnected with old friends. What do you think?

TALENT SHOW???

Our ward has an annual talent show for the primary. My kids were enthusiastic to participate, but I wasn't sure what talent my three boys could showcase. Apparently I didn't need to worry, because the boys already had ideas and signed up with their primary teachers without asking me first. Sooooo...the boys talents went as follows;

Braden and Mitchell- Star Wars impersonators

Camden- "SpiderCAM"

Umm, not your usual talents ie...piano, singing, dancing, art, but talents just the same!

Brade and Mitch practiced a routine with light sabers and Camden practiced moves in his spider man costume.

Camden was the only sunbeam to even try to do a talent. He announced himself as "spidercam" and then went to the stage. He must have gotten a bit of stage fright because he got up there and just stood in the spidercam stanz without moving. I whispered for him to do his moves and he just shook his head still frozen. Finally he just bowed and left the stage. I was glad everyone cheered for him.

Well, I can't put into words about the older boys. I guess I will just have to post the video,. Yes we are talented.

EASTER

I love the springtime! Sorry to everyone who doesn't live somewhere warm, but my grass is green and my trees are all budding with vibrant colored flowers. We spent the weekend bbq'ing with neighbors having our own easter egg hunt, and SWIMMING. Yes you heard me right... Swimming. Our generous neighbors had us over to swim and the kids couldn't get enough of it. On Sunday after church we took it easy, and it was soooo warm that we couldn't pass up the idea of eating our dinner in the backyard. We tried to snap a family picture, but unlike EVERYONE else who seems to have the knack at great picture taking ours are just mediocre.