Easter, Apple Sauce and Artwork

Since I have been so busy with our stake musical I haven't blogged much. I missed sending Easter pictures and other activities we had done. We were able to spend the day up in Logan with my brother and sister-in-law and I haven't written about that yet either. I will dedicate a blog to that day soon.

Easter was a fun day at our house. P got hot wheels in his basket and you'd thought we'd given him a million dollars. He was so excited and impatient while we opened the package for him. We also hid plastic Easter eggs with Hersey kisses in them throughout our back yard. Sadly, I was silly and didn't take pictures or film it. You'll just have to take my word that it was a lot of fun. Once we showed Agent P that there was chocolate in the eggs, he was determined to find them all and had a lot of fun finding them. Before church we tried to get a family picture taken. Here are the best two we could get.

P was done with photos shortly after taking only a few. He wanted to play instead.

A few months ago my parents, sisters and I got together and made homemade apple sauce and canned them. It's really good if I do say so myself. Agent P also really likes it. Last night we gave him some with his dinner and he went all out trying to eat every last drop. It got all over the place. All over his face, hair, chair, hands, clothes, everywhere! When the spoon didn't work for him, he just picked it up and tried to drink it, when that didn't work he just scooped it out with his hands. Where there's a will, there's a way.

Last night Hutch and I were reminded why we must pay attention to sounds that P makes or doesn't make. Hutch and I were in the living room sitting on the couch talking about our day when we realized we hadn't heard P for a while. I walked into the hallway and he was standing there with a pencil and a really big smile. He then showed me his artwork.

That would be the wall in the hallway. He was so proud of it. I tried to get him to stand next to it so I could take a picture of him with it, but he wouldn't. We are sooooooo thankful that it was a pencil so it will be easy to clean off. We are still trying to get him to understand that we draw on paper, not walls. Silly kid!

Bucket List

Wow! Three blogs in one day! Something must be wrong with me. Or I'm bored. Or I'm just in a sharing mood. My three blog readers should feel lucky, wait, am I up to four now?

I have a bucket list. I've never actually seen the movie. I've heard it's good so does that count? But I have a small list of things I'd like to accomplish before I die. They are:

A. Visit all of the Presidential Libraries - I've visited one (so I'm a step further than some people)
B. Cook my way through a cookbook - I don't which one yet. I haven't picked it yet. I do love Paula Deen but not sure how it would affect my waistline. I also like Mark Bitman so it might be one of his.
C. Play my Top 5 Roles (at least top 4 - number 5 changes) - they are: 1. Maria in "The Sound of Music", 2. Narrator in "Joseph...", 3. Bakers Wife in "Into the Woods", Jo in "Little Women". The number 5 slot that changes a lot are: Eponine in "Les Miserables", Elphaba in "Wicked", Mother in "Ragime" and Donna in "Momma Mia".
D. Sing "Glitter and be Gay" from Candide
E. Sing "O Mio Babbino Caro" by Puccini

That is my list so far. I felt dumb the other day when someone asked me what was on my bucket list and I couldn't remember. Mind you I was running on little sleep and my brain had expoded about 5 times that day, but I should remember what I want to do before I die. So I'm blogging about it so I always have it saved. What's on your bucket list?

For Cherie

My friend Cherie told me that I need to blog more often because it helps her get through the day. No pressure or anything. So this blog post is for.

Cherie is the process of losing her mind. Not this kind of losing her mind:

I think if Michael Ball was going to lose his mind over me, I'd be ok with that. She's more losing her mind over something like this:

Cherie's son is getting married on Friday. A presentation like the video won't be happening (even though I wouldn't put it past Brandon) the craziness and stress will be there. Cherie, everything is going to turn out beautifully! The worst thing that could happen is their wedding cake melting...oops...too soon? heehee!! The couple is going to look beautiful, the church is going to look beautiful and most importantly, you're going to look beautifiul (with or without high heals). I love you very much! You're a wonderful mom and I know your son appreciates everything you are doing.

Now, to lighten the mood, this video is for you:
(In a Bill Cosby mood)

Clarify

In my previous post I had mentioned how things happen for a reason but I don't know if I ever expanded on that. Me being cast as Elsa was a good thing. If I hadn't been I wouldn't have been able to block the show. I wouldn't have been involved in each scene getting to know each person and the character they played. I wouldn't have meet and have gotten to know the amazing people in the show. I wouldn't have been as close to the production team as I was. To learn from their amazing talents each and every day. So this show was a complete blessing to me. I might not have seen it at the begining but in the end it made sense. And that's a lesson too.