Saturday, April 13, 2013
The Sound of Music
I need all of my pictures on here, but until then....
For the past 4 months Kelly and Charity have been working on their school's production of The Sound of Music. All of their hard work finally came to fruition on Friday, March 19th. The day of their school performance. I was lucky enough to be able to go. Nate stayed home with Noah and Erika, I took Jack, and sat in the very back, but LOVED EVERY MINUTE OF IT!!! I was so proud of my girls! As I mentioned before, Kelly got the part of Gretl, the youngest of the seven Vontrapp family children. Charity got the part of Bertha, "the mean nun". They did such an amazing job! The whole thing was just so much fun, but I seriously almost cried watching it... it's just so neat to watch your kids participate in such a production.
We took the whole family, Grandpa Russ and Grandma Ruthie, Grandpa Hatch, Steve and Jauslin, and even Stephanie and Sophie to the first evening performance, on Thursday night. We went out to Dairy Queen with Grandpa Hatch after to celebrate.
We brought Aunt Jen, Marshall and Evan, Aunt Heidi and John to the Friday night showing.
Then we brought Grandma Hatch and Simon, Sarah and her boys to the final showing, on the following Thursday night.
So LOTS of support! I was glad I was able to watch it each time they performed. I thought they got better with each one.
I'll have to have each of them describe this experience. Sure was fun.
Friday, April 12, 2013
Too Long
I am sick about the length of time between my last posting and now. It's been a whole month. I've never gone that long without posting!! Not in the 6 years I've had my blog. So I'm stressed about where to start. I decided to just post what I remember, when I do, so I will hopefully add to this post.
- St. Patrick's Day was on Sunday this year! I was so unprepared. I didn't even do anything fun for the kids!! Luckily they all stepped up and did something for themselves with some gold coin candies we had laying around. The big kids made a treasure hunt to find them. I did put some green food coloring in the milk cups so that then I poured the milk in it turned green (kinda weak, I know), so it wasn't a total loss. But really... I've done better.
- At the end of March sometime, I don't remember what day, we were changing out our computer desk. I had wanted to do my friend a favor and buy her desk that she was getting rid of, since she refused to take money from me. It's not the best desk, it is fine, and I like it better than the one we had, but I wouldn't have taken it for free. Then she refused to take my money for the desk afterall!! So anyway, we were changing it out, and I STUPIDLY left the computer on while I moved the computer and printer and external hard drive. I'm still sick about this. As I lifted up the computer, the external hard drive fell off!!! I remember thinking that was probably not good for it, but nothing could have prepared me for how devastating it would really be. I finished the transplant and was happy with how things looked. I guess I went a few days without using the computer because all of a sudden, I couldn't access the info on my external hard drive!!! I took it to my Dad's to see if he could fix it and he can't. I'm so broken up about it! I have all of my pictures on it, plus 3 blog books and all of our home videos that are not already on DVDs. It breaks my heart!! I found out that it will be quite a bit of money to retreive the information and right now is not a good time to need extra money. So it sits here, on my desk, just full of my memories. I hope that we can afford to do it soon, and that it will actually be retreivable. If it's not, I'll die. In the meantime I have no room to upload pictures onto my computer, so the blog is going to be lifeless journal entries for a while. Til I figure something else out. I guess I'll probably buy a new external drive once we have a little extra. The timing of all of this is just ridiculous! I guess it's good that we had already decided to buy the house before it happened or we wouldn't have had the money to put down on the house.... so I guess it's good, but it's hard to think that now. My Dad always told me to back up my data. Guess I shoulda listened. I guess I kind of thought that the external hard drive WAS backing it up :). Kinda. Well, and I'm too cheap. So now I'll have to pay. Anyway. Kind of a pivotal moment in time for me. I'm really sad about it.
- On April Fool's Day, which was during Spring Break so the kids were a little bummed that they weren't going to be able to play all their tricks on their teachers and stuff :). But we did do lots of fun pranks. The kids did all their little non-lies. Everyone kept telling Charity that her dog had pooped or peed, or gotten out of the house and then topping it off with an "April Fools!!" We all got each other a time or two. When Nate got home though, this is the funny part, he had a package of Oreos "leftover from a party at work". He set them on the table and let everyone eat them. Nobody even said a word about them. I even ate a few not really thinking much. I'll admit, I thought they might be a little stale or something, but honestly, not noticeably bad. THen after a while, Nate announced that he had scraped out the cream and filled half of them with toothpaste!!!! I couldn't believe he'd done a prank! I was so happy!! Then I couldn't believe I'd fallen for it. It was so crazy! Then we found out he'd changed out a couple bags of chips as well, with spicy ones!! Then he and I put saran wrap on the toilet, which I have no idea why that is even a prank, you can totally see it! And I put mustard in the empty toothpaste container. So we had some fun :). It was a lot of fun to have Nate on board with me this year :) I love him!
- St. Patrick's Day was on Sunday this year! I was so unprepared. I didn't even do anything fun for the kids!! Luckily they all stepped up and did something for themselves with some gold coin candies we had laying around. The big kids made a treasure hunt to find them. I did put some green food coloring in the milk cups so that then I poured the milk in it turned green (kinda weak, I know), so it wasn't a total loss. But really... I've done better.
- At the end of March sometime, I don't remember what day, we were changing out our computer desk. I had wanted to do my friend a favor and buy her desk that she was getting rid of, since she refused to take money from me. It's not the best desk, it is fine, and I like it better than the one we had, but I wouldn't have taken it for free. Then she refused to take my money for the desk afterall!! So anyway, we were changing it out, and I STUPIDLY left the computer on while I moved the computer and printer and external hard drive. I'm still sick about this. As I lifted up the computer, the external hard drive fell off!!! I remember thinking that was probably not good for it, but nothing could have prepared me for how devastating it would really be. I finished the transplant and was happy with how things looked. I guess I went a few days without using the computer because all of a sudden, I couldn't access the info on my external hard drive!!! I took it to my Dad's to see if he could fix it and he can't. I'm so broken up about it! I have all of my pictures on it, plus 3 blog books and all of our home videos that are not already on DVDs. It breaks my heart!! I found out that it will be quite a bit of money to retreive the information and right now is not a good time to need extra money. So it sits here, on my desk, just full of my memories. I hope that we can afford to do it soon, and that it will actually be retreivable. If it's not, I'll die. In the meantime I have no room to upload pictures onto my computer, so the blog is going to be lifeless journal entries for a while. Til I figure something else out. I guess I'll probably buy a new external drive once we have a little extra. The timing of all of this is just ridiculous! I guess it's good that we had already decided to buy the house before it happened or we wouldn't have had the money to put down on the house.... so I guess it's good, but it's hard to think that now. My Dad always told me to back up my data. Guess I shoulda listened. I guess I kind of thought that the external hard drive WAS backing it up :). Kinda. Well, and I'm too cheap. So now I'll have to pay. Anyway. Kind of a pivotal moment in time for me. I'm really sad about it.
- On April Fool's Day, which was during Spring Break so the kids were a little bummed that they weren't going to be able to play all their tricks on their teachers and stuff :). But we did do lots of fun pranks. The kids did all their little non-lies. Everyone kept telling Charity that her dog had pooped or peed, or gotten out of the house and then topping it off with an "April Fools!!" We all got each other a time or two. When Nate got home though, this is the funny part, he had a package of Oreos "leftover from a party at work". He set them on the table and let everyone eat them. Nobody even said a word about them. I even ate a few not really thinking much. I'll admit, I thought they might be a little stale or something, but honestly, not noticeably bad. THen after a while, Nate announced that he had scraped out the cream and filled half of them with toothpaste!!!! I couldn't believe he'd done a prank! I was so happy!! Then I couldn't believe I'd fallen for it. It was so crazy! Then we found out he'd changed out a couple bags of chips as well, with spicy ones!! Then he and I put saran wrap on the toilet, which I have no idea why that is even a prank, you can totally see it! And I put mustard in the empty toothpaste container. So we had some fun :). It was a lot of fun to have Nate on board with me this year :) I love him!
Charity's Family Party
Since we had been ON THE BEACH in CALIFORNIA! on Charity's birthday, we ended up having her family party a few days later, on Tuesday, March 12th. She had lots of support from family, it was a fun party!
Kelly and Bradley gave Charity a show for her birthday, out on the trampoline! So cute!
And they both lived happily every after....
Monday morning, after we got back, the kids all left for school and the rest of us were left to enjoy the leftover magic. Erika was still in Princess Land and Noah was her Prince :) The camera was out :).... enjoy :)
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